LEADER 04767nam 2200793Ia 450 001 9910968711603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786613810427 010 $a9781554585588 010 $a1554585589 010 $a9781282232686 010 $a1282232681 010 $a9780889206762 010 $a0889206767 024 7 $a10.51644/9780889206762 035 $a(CKB)1000000000713892 035 $a(OCoLC)180704525 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10139421 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000277490 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11195982 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000277490 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10234244 035 $a(PQKB)10994013 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000745091 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12386470 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000745091 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10870053 035 $a(PQKB)11291914 035 $a(CaPaEBR)402444 035 $a(CaBNvSL)jme00326947 035 $a(OCoLC)614475244 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse48098 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3050240 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10147183 035 $a(OCoLC)922950997 035 $a(DE-B1597)667271 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780889206762 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/10b6hg 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/2/402444 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3050240 035 $a(Perlego)1706533 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000713892 100 $a19960119d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBritain confronts the Stalin revolution $eAnglo-Soviet relations and the Metro-Vickers crisis /$fGordon W. Morrell 210 $aWaterloo, Canada $cWilfrid Laurier University Press$dc1995 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 204 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) $cillustrations 311 08$a9780889202504 311 08$a0889202508 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 189-198) and index. 327 $aTable of Contents for Britain Confronts the Stalin Revolution: Anglo-Soviet Relations and the Metro-Vickers Crisis by Gordon W. Morrell Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Building Lenin's Dream 2. The MVEEC and the Stalin Revolution 3. The Politics of Crisis Diplomacy 4. In the Bowels of the Lubianka 5. The Metro-Vickers Show Trial 6. Crisis Contained 7. Conclusions Appendices A: Electrical Capacity B: Soviet Foreign Trade, 1913-40 C: Soviet Trade with Britain, 1913-39 D: Soviet Foreign Trade: Commodities, 1913-40 E: Soviet Gross Production F: Article 58 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR G: Major Soviet Trading Partners, 1929-34 Bibliography Index 330 $a?Russian politics, like opium, seems infallibly to provoke the most fantastic dreams and imaginings on the part of the people who study them.? ? E.A. Walker, British Embassy, Moscow 1931 In March 1933 the economic section of the Soviet secret police arrested six British engineers employed by the Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company. The arrests provoked a confrontation that brought Anglo-Soviet relations to the brink of disaster and resurrected the spectre of the show trials and purges of the technical intelligentsia that had shaken Soviet society from 1928 to 1931. Britain Confronts the Stalin Revolution is the first full-length study of the Metro-Vickers? show trial of 1933. Based upon some new and many underutilized Soviet and British sources, Gordon Morrell examines the political, economic, social, legal and cultural dimensions of the only Stalinist political trial of the 1930s that directly engaged a foreign power. Morrell explores the roots of the crisis by analyzing Metro-Vickers? role in the electrification of the USSR and he examines the political, economic and diplomatic relations between Britain and the Soviets that gave the crisis its international importance. He focusses on the efforts of the British Government to understand and respond to the new Stalinist order and, importantly, casts new light on the apparent role of the British Industrial Intelligence Centre during the early 1930s. Britain Confronts the Stalin Revolution is an accessible, original and multidimensional work that makes an important contribution to the study of Anglo-Soviet relations. 606 $aTrials (Espionage)$zSoviet Union 607 $aGreat Britain$xForeign relations$zSoviet Union 607 $aSoviet Union$xForeign relations$zGreat Britain 615 0$aTrials (Espionage) 676 $a327.47041 700 $aMorrell$b Gordon W.$f1958-$01804128 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910968711603321 996 $aBritain confronts the Stalin revolution$94352019 997 $aUNINA