ON THE “RUSSO-AMERICAN FEVER”: HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW DANA AND THE GORKI FUND

Shpolberg, Angela

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September 01 2015

ON THE “RUSSO-AMERICAN FEVER”: HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW DANA AND THE GORKI FUND

Angela Shpolberg

Angela Shpolberg is Center Associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and was the 2012 Patterson Research Fellow at Longfellow House. Her research focuses on cultural diplomacy between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R in the period immediately following the Russian Revolution. She is currently at work on a project that brings together American and British eyewitness accounts of the early years of the Soviet Union. She holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from Odessa National University in Odessa, Ukraine, where she taught for over ten years. Since 1996, she has been based in Boston.

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Angela Shpolberg

Angela Shpolberg is Center Associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and was the 2012 Patterson Research Fellow at Longfellow House. Her research focuses on cultural diplomacy between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R in the period immediately following the Russian Revolution. She is currently at work on a project that brings together American and British eyewitness accounts of the early years of the Soviet Union. She holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from Odessa National University in Odessa, Ukraine, where she taught for over ten years. Since 1996, she has been based in Boston.

Online ISSN: 1937-2213

Print ISSN: 0028-4866

2015

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The New England Quarterly (2015) 88 (3): 509–526.

https://doi.org/10.1162/TNEQ_a_00476

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In 1921, Bolshevik-ruled Russia suffered a famine affecting over 37 million people. In Boston, Henry (Harry) Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, grandson of the famous poet, and Russian-Jewish immigrant Isidore Levitt, responding to writer Maxim Gorky’s appeals for relief, established the Gorki Fund. Using newly discovered archival materials, the article relates its story.

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