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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826038103321
• Autore: Heywood Anthony
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge ; ; New York, : 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
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• 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.