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Show #640: NOT BY BREAD ALONE
Guests: Professor Melissa Caldwell, author of Not by Bread Alone: Social Support in the New Russia
Subject: The equation was simple: From each according to his abililty, to each according to his need. But there was not enough ability, or too much need, and the USSR collapsed into ruin, which leads us to ask… Who feeds the hungry when the government falls?
Topics include a look at how the hungry were fed in the socialist USSR; what happened to the hungry when that government failed; and who fed the hungry when there was no government help.