Download or read book Soviet Railways to Russian Railways written by J. Westwood and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-12-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the postsoviet decade Russian railways remained highly centralised, evaded the upheavals of mass privatisation, and remained the backbone of a demoralised economy. Preserving much of Soviet practice, the Railways Ministry mounted a skilled rearguard action that achieved a gradual and considered adaptation to the market economy rather than the pell-mell, western-orientated, liberalisation that afflicted other branches of the economy. This book describes that rearguard action, and goes on to show how railway managers are coping with the new conditions.
Download or read book Soviet Railways to Russian Railways written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the postsoviet decade Russian railways remained highly centralised, evaded the upheavals of mass privatisation, and remained the backbone of a demoralised economy. Preserving much of Soviet practice, the Railways Ministry mounted a skilled rearguard action that achieved a gradual and considered adaptation to the market economy rather than the pell-mell, western-orientated, liberalisation that afflicted other branches of the economy. This book describes that rearguard action, and goes on to show how railway managers are coping with the new conditions.
Download or read book A History of Russian Railways written by J. N. Westwood and published by London : Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 1964 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stalin s Railroad written by Matthew J. Payne and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Turkestano-Siberian Railroad, or Turksib, was one of the great construction projects of the Soviet Union's First Five-Year Plan. As the major icon to ending the economic "backwardness" of the USSR's minority republics, it stood apart from similar efforts as one of the most potent metaphors for the creation of a unified socialist nation.Built between December 1926 and January 1931 by nearly 50,000 workers and at a cost of more 161 million rubles, Turksib embodied the Bolsheviks' commitment to end ethnic inequality and promote cultural revolution in one the far-flung corners of the old Tsarist Empire, Kazakhstan. Trumpeted as the "forge of the Kazakh proletariat," the railroad was to create a native working class, bringing not only trains to the steppes, but also the Revolution.In the first in-depth study of this grand project, Matthew Payne explores the transformation of its builders in Turksib's crucible of class war, race riots, state purges, and the brutal struggle of everyday life. In the battle for the souls of the nation's engineers, as well as the racial and ethnic conflicts that swirled, far from Moscow, around Stalin's vast campaign of industrialization, he finds a microcosm of the early Soviet Union.
Download or read book The Russian Railways written by Paul Elford Garbutt and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Russia Enters the Railway Age 1842 1855 written by Richard Mowbray Haywood and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the planning, financing, construction, and early years of operation of the St. Petersburg-Moscow Railway, which was the largest single project undertaken by Peter the Great and a major departure point for further railway construction in Russia. The text pays special attention to the roles played by British and American engineers and entrepreneurs, the quality of Russian engineering skills, and the successes and failures in the transfer of foreign technology to Russia.
Download or read book Railways and Railwaymen in the Soviet Union written by Peter Kingsford and published by [London] : Published for the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School by Lawrence & Wishart. This book was released on 1942 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soviet Railways Today written by J. N. Westwood and published by New York : Citadel Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soviet Transport written by Vladimir Nikolaevich Obrazt︠s︡ov and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Brezhnev s Folly written by Christopher J. Ward and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heralded by Soviet propaganda as the "Path to the Future," the Baikal-Amur Mainline Railway (BAM) represented the hopes and dreams of Brezhnev and the Communist Party elite of the late Soviet era. Begun in 1974, and spanning approximately 2,000 miles after twenty-nine years of halting construction, the BAM project was intended to showcase the national unity, determination, skill, technology, and industrial might that Soviet socialism claimed to embody. More pragmatically, the Soviet leadership envisioned the BAM railway as a trade route to the Pacific, where markets for Soviet timber and petroleum would open up, and as an engine for the development of Siberia. Despite these aspirations and the massive commitment of economic resources on its behalf, BAM proved to be a boondoggle-a symbol of late communism's dysfunctionality-and a cruel joke to many ordinary Soviet citizens. In reality, BAM was woefully bereft of quality materials and construction, and victimized by poor planning and an inferior workforce. Today, the railway is fully complete, but remains a symbol of the profligate spending and inefficiency that characterized the Brezhnev years.In Brezhnev's Folly, Christopher J. Ward provides a groundbreaking social history of the BAM railway project. He examines the recruitment of hundreds of thousands of workers from the diverse republics of the USSR and other socialist countries, and his extensive archival research and interviews with numerous project workers provide an inside look at the daily life of the BAM workforce. We see firsthand the disorganization, empty promises, dire living and working conditions, environmental damage, and acts of crime, segregation, and discrimination that constituted daily life during the project's construction. Thus, perhaps, we also see the final irony of BAM: that the most lasting legacy of this misguided effort to build Soviet socialism is to shed historical light on the profound ills afflicting a society in terminal decline.
Download or read book Russian Locomotive Types written by J. N. Westwood and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modernising Lenin s Russia written by Anthony Heywood and published by . This book was released on 1999-08-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals Lenin's dealings with Western business through a study of Russian railways.
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Download or read book Russia s Railway Advance Into Central Asia written by George Dobson and published by London ; Calcutta : W.H. Allen. This book was released on 1890 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Status of the Private Railroad Business in Russia written by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bublikov and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
