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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154324903321

Autore

Siegel Jennifer

Titolo

For peace and money : French and British finance in the service of tsars and commissars

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-19-938783-4

0-19-938784-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Oxford studies in international history For peace and money

Disciplina

336.4709/041

Soggetti

Finance - History - 20th century - Russia

Political Science

Law, Politics & Government

Public Finance

History

Russia History 1801-1917

Russia Economic conditions 1861-1917

Russia Foreign economic relations Great Britain

Russia Foreign economic relations France

Great Britain Foreign economic relations Russia

France Foreign economic relations Russia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The rise of the Franco-Russian financial alliance, 1894-1903 -- The international financial challenges of war and revolution, 1904-1906 -- The changing face of Russia's financiers, 1907-1913 -- The costs of war, 1914-1917 -- Revolution, repudiation, and recriminations, 1917-1922 -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

'For Peace and Money' looks at late imperial Russia's financial and diplomatic relationship with the nations that came to be its allies in World War I, exploring British and French private and government loans to Russia from 1894 to the Genoa Conference of 1922.