03033nam 22005655 450 991013664560332120211005084714.01-5017-0537-710.7591/9781501705373(CKB)3710000000888723(DE-B1597)480112(OCoLC)1013939760(OCoLC)1029827044(OCoLC)1032676740(OCoLC)1037980694(OCoLC)1041990480(OCoLC)1046609910(OCoLC)1047020880(OCoLC)1049633259(OCoLC)1054875236(OCoLC)979729178(DE-B1597)9781501705373(MiAaPQ)EBC4843502(MiAaPQ)EBC5493922(Au-PeEL)EBL5493922(EXLCZ)99371000000088872320190615d2016 fg engur||#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Electrification of Russia, 1880-1926 /Jonathan CoopersmithIthaca, NY :Cornell University Press,[2016]©20161 online resource0-8014-2723-1 1-5017-0716-7 Frontmatter --Contents --Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Abbreviations and Russian Terms --CHAPTER 1. Introduction: The Shaping of a Technology --CHAPTER 2. Government and Growth in Imperial Russia, 1870-1886 --CHAPTER 3. Electrification, 1886-1914 --CHAPTER 4. The Rise of Electrification, 1914-1917 --CHAPTER 5. Feasting Eyes, Hungry Stomachs, 1917-1920 --CHAPTER 6. GOELRO: The Creation of a Dream, 1920-1921 --CHAPTER 7. The NEP Years, 1921-1926 --CHAPTER 8. Conclusion: Shifting Grounds, Shifting Goals --Index≤p≥he Electrification of Russia, 1880-1926 is the first full account of the widespread adoption of electricity in Russia, from the beginning in the 1880s to its early years as a state technology under Soviet rule. Jonathan Coopersmith has mined the archives for both the tsarist and the Soviet periods to examine a crucial element in the modernization of Russia. Coopersmith shows how the Communist Party forged an alliance with engineers to harness the socially transformative power of this science-based enterprise. A centralized plan of electrification triumphed, to the benefit of the Communist Party and the detriment of local governments and the electrical engineers. Coopersmith's narrative of how this came to be elucidates the deep-seated and chronic conflict between the utopianism of Soviet ideology and the reality of Soviet politics and economics.HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet UnionbisacshHISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.333.79320947Coopersmith Jonathan953441DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910136645603321The Electrification of Russia, 1880-19262155606UNINA