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Modernising Lenin's Russia : economic reconstruction, foreign trade and the railways
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ISBN: 052162178X 0511019130 0511156278 0511497040 0521027179 0511116861 1280161787 0511329180 0511050437 1107114845 9780511019135 9780521621786 0511035195 9780511035197 9780511116865 9780511497049 9786610161782 661016178X 9780521027175 9781107114845 9780511050435 9780511329180 9781280161780 9780511156274 Year: 1999 Volume: 105 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In this book Anthony Heywood reassesses Bolshevik attitudes towards economic modernization and foreign economic relations during the early Soviet period. Based on hitherto unused Russian and Western archives, he examines an extraordinary decision made in March 1920 to import vast quantities of railway equipment. The book argues that under War Communism and the NEP railway modernization was vital to a strategy of rapid economic modernization, and provides the first detailed case study of the government's import policy. Following the histories of the principal contracts, it analyses Soviet foreign trade as a means to tackle domestic economic challenges. This book provides readers with a new perspective on Soviet economic development, and reveals the scale of Bolshevik business dealings with the capitalist West immediately after the Revolution.


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Engineer of revolutionary Russia : Iurii V. Lomonosov (1876-1952) and the railways
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ISBN: 1315579677 1317143329 1317143310 1282948318 9786612948312 1409412342 9781409412342 9780754655398 0754655393 Year: 2010 Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,

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From Marxist revolutionary to American academic, this book reveals the life of one of revolutionary Russia's most distinguished and controversial engineers - Iurii Vladimirovich Lomonosov (1876-1952). The book employs an exceptionally rich base of high-quality primary sources, that not only provides a much-needed account and assessment of Lomonosov's life, but also contributes to the growing academic interest in the history of science and technology in Russia and the Soviet Union.

The Russian Revolution of 1905
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ISBN: 0203002083 1299458610 1134253303 9781134253302 9780203002087 0415355680 9780415355681 9780415654135 0415654130 9781134253258 9781134253296 113425329X Year: 2005 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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2005 marks the centenary of Russia's 'first revolution' - an unplanned, spontaneous rejection of Tsarist rule that was a response to the 'Bloody Sunday' massacre of 9th January 1905. A wave of strikes, urban uprisings, peasant revolts, national revolutions and mutinies swept across the Russian Empire, and it proved a crucial turning point in the demise of the autocracy and the rise of a revolutionary socialism that would shape Russia, Europe and the international system for the rest of the twentieth century.The centenary of the Revolution has prompted scholars to review an

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