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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454818203321

Autore

Heywood Anthony

Titolo

Modernising Lenin's Russia : economic reconstruction, foreign trade and the railways / / Anthony Heywood [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999

ISBN

1-107-11484-5

0-511-05043-7

0-511-32918-0

1-280-16178-7

0-511-11686-1

0-521-02717-9

0-511-49704-0

0-511-15627-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 328 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet studies ; ; 105

Disciplina

385/.0947

Soggetti

Railroads - Soviet Union - History

Railroads and state - Soviet Union

Railroads - Soviet Union - Equipment and supplies

Soviet Union Economic policy

Soviet Union Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-310) and index.

Nota di contenuto

; pt. I. Towards economic reconstruction, 1917-1920 the birth of the railway imports policy. ; 1. Prologue. ; 2. The revolutionary railway vision -- ; pt. II. Trade and isolation, 1920-1921 implementing the railway imports policy. ; 3. Krasin's first results. ; 4. Approaches to Britain and Germany. ; 5. Second thoughts -- ; pt. III. Retreat, 1921-1924. ; 6. The new order. ; 7. Denouement.

Sommario/riassunto

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.