Modernising Lenin''s Russia - Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade and the Railways

Klappentext Reveals Lenin's dealings with Western business through a study of Russian railways. Zusammenfassung This book reassesses Bolshevik attitudes towards economic modernization and foreign economic relations under Lenin. It examines the decision to import vast quantities of railway equipment in order to achieve rapid economic modernization! and reveals the scale of Bolshevik business dealings with the capitalist West immediately after the Revolution. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Towards Economic Reconstruction, 1917-20: The Birth of the Railway Imports Policy: 1. Prologue; 2. The revolutionary railway vision; Part II. Trade and Isolation, 1920-1: Implementing the Railway Imports Policy: 3. Krasin's first results; 4. Approaches to Britain and Germany; 5. Second thoughts; Part III. Retreat, 1921-4: 6. The new order; 7. Denouement; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Heywood Anthony, Anthony Heywood, Anthony (University of Bradford) Heywood
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.06.2006
• EAN: 9780521027175
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02717-5
• No. of pages: 364
• Series: Cambridge Russian, Soviet & Po
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