TY - BOOK ID - 137677965 TI - Russia's Struggle With Modernity 1815-1929 PY - 2013 SN - 1783330864 9781783330867 PB - Luton : Andrews UK, DB - UniCat KW - Defense industries -- Russia (Federation). KW - Economic conversion -- Russia (Federation). KW - Russia (Federation) -- Economic policy -- 1991-. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137677965 AB - In 1917 Czarist Russia collapsed during the catastrophe of the First World War, but the tensions that had accumulated inside the empire for a century due to the challenges that modernisation presented were the real seeds of her undoing. The 19th Century was a battle for the soul of Russia, and it decided whether she would embrace liberal democracy and industrialisation like her contemporaries in Europe, or whether she would retreat into the past. In fact, she did both, and the human legacy o... ER -