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

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies
Release date:	August 1999
First published:	1999
Authors:	Anthony Heywood
Dimensions:	237 x 160 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	364
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-62178-6
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > General Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General Promotions
LSN:	0-521-62178-X
Barcode:	9780521621786

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