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Book Soviet Locomotive Technology During Industrialization  1928 52

Download or read book Soviet Locomotive Technology During Industrialization 1928 52 written by J.N. Westwood and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Book News

Download or read book British Book News written by British Council and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes no. 53a: British wartime books for young people.

Book Technology and Culture

Download or read book Technology and Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Engineer of Revolutionary Russia

Download or read book Engineer of Revolutionary Russia written by Anthony Heywood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first substantial study in any language of one of revolutionary Russia's most distinguished and controversial engineers - Iurii Vladimirovich Lomonosov (1876-1952). Not only does it provide an outline of his remarkable life and career, it also explores the relationship between science, technology and transport that developed in late tsarist and early Soviet Russia. Lomonosov's importance extends well beyond his scientific and engineering achievements thanks to the rich variety and public prominence of his professional and political activities. His generation - Lenin's generation - was inevitably at the forefront of Russian life from the 1910s to the 1930s, and Lomonosov took his place there as one of the country's best known and ultimately notorious engineers. As well as an innovative engineer who campaigned to enhance the role of science, he played a major role in shaping and administering the Russian railways, and undertook several diplomatic and scientific missions to the West during the early years of the Revolution. Falling from political favour during an assignment in Germany (1923-1927), he achieved notoriety in Russia as a 'non-returner' by apparently declining to return home. Thereby escaping probable arrest and execution, he began a new life abroad (1927-1952) which included a research post at the California Institute of Technology in 1929-1930, collaborative projects with the famous physicist P.L. Kapitsa in Cambridge, a long-time association with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London, and work for the British War Office during the Second World War. From Marxist revolutionary to American academic, this study reveals Lomonosov's extraordinary life. Drawing on a wide variety of official Russian sources, as well as Lomonosov's own diaries and memoirs, a vivid portrait of his life is presented, offering a better understanding of how science, technology and politics interacted in early-twentieth-century Russia.

Book Endurance and Endeavour

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. N. Westwood
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 646 pages

Download or read book Endurance and Endeavour written by J. N. Westwood and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 4th edition of this introduction to modern Russian history has been completely revised and updated, with a new chapter on the most recent developments in the former Soviet Union.

Book The British National Bibliography

Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Tsarism to the New Economic Policy

Download or read book From Tsarism to the New Economic Policy written by R. W. Davies and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-06-18 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comparison between the tsarist economy on the eve of the revolution and the Soviet economy in the mid-1920s. Questions posed include, was the tsarist economy successful, but destroyed by World War I? And was the breakdown of the mixed economy of the 1920s an arbitary political act?

Book The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union  1913 1945

Download or read book The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union 1913 1945 written by Robert William Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars in the field analyse the Soviet economy sector by sector to make available, in textbook form, the results of the latest research on Soviet industrialisation.

Book Trasport Development and Locomotive Technology in the Soviet Union

Download or read book Trasport Development and Locomotive Technology in the Soviet Union written by James H. Blackman and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Soviet Marketing and Economic Development

Download or read book Soviet Marketing and Economic Development written by Roger Skurski and published by Springer. This book was released on 1983-12-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Russia Against Japan  1904 1905

Download or read book Russia Against Japan 1904 1905 written by J. N. Westwood and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russo-Japanese conflict was recognized, in its time, as introducing a new era of warfare, involving millions of men and weapons of mass destruction. In the decade which elapsed after its end much was written about it. The First World War marked a second stage in the development of twentieth-century-style total war, and so overshadowed the Russo-Japanese War that little further study was made of the latter. Subsequent books on this subject were for popular readerships, and mainly recycled the knowledge and beliefs of the pre-1914 years. This book aims to present a short account of the war, stripped of the legends that successive journalists and authors have attached to it, and at the same time present new angles and interpretations based on hitherto unused Russian-language sources and on the specialized monographs of the few scholars working in this and related fields. While not claiming to be definitive, it does provide a fresh start for the study of this war, whose importance justifies a clear-headed examination, casting light on Russian military and naval tradition. The distinctive psychology of Russian generals and admirals is well illustrated in this book, and the conclusion that the former were for bureaucratic reasons happier in defense than offense, and that the latter thought in military rather than naval terms (regarding battleships as fortresses that, under pressure, they could surrender of demolish), has implications for the understanding of subsequent Russian and Soviet history. Among the incidental implications is that during this war the British and American press sank to such a voluntary and involuntary level of distortion that its performance in subsequent wars can only be regarded as an improvement. Here and there in the book explanations for subsequent Russian and Japanese behavior can be glimpsed; not the least of these is the circumstance that at the end of the war Russian generals and officials felt cheated of certain victory while exactly the same intense and long-term frustration gnawed at Japanese public opinion. It was really an unsatisfactory war for both sides, the innumerable dead winning nothing worth while; in this and many other ways the Russo-Japanese War was a dress rehearsal for the First World War.

Book World Trade Since 1431

Download or read book World Trade Since 1431 written by Peter J. Hugill and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1431 the Portuguese navigator Velho set sail into the Atlantic, establishing a trade route to the Azores and marking the beginning of commerce with the West as we know it today. Equipped with reliable maps and instruments for open-ocean navigation and highly sea-worthy, three-masted, cannon-armed ships, Portugal soon dominated the Atlantic trade routes - until the diffusion of Portuguese technologies to wealthier polities made Holland the eventual successor, owing to its geographic position and its immense commercial fleet.

Book Transport Development and Locomotive Technology in the Soviet Union

Download or read book Transport Development and Locomotive Technology in the Soviet Union written by Carter Burgess and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Books in English on the Soviet Union  1917 73

Download or read book Books in English on the Soviet Union 1917 73 written by and published by New York : Garland Pub.. This book was released on 1975 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transport Development and Locomotive Technology in the Soviet Union

Download or read book Transport Development and Locomotive Technology in the Soviet Union written by James L. Blackman and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: