Government, Industry and Rearmament in Russia, 1900-1914: The Last Argument of Tsarism

ISBN-13: 9780521466196 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 426 str.

Peter Gatrell

Opis

This book examines the ability of the tsarist government and Russian industrialists to respond to the multiple challenges of war, revolution, political reform, international diplomacy and rearmament in the early twentieth century. Using Russian archive materials, Peter Gatrell analyzes the process and outcome of decision-making by government and business in the key sphere of defense, and makes an important contribution to the literature on the capacity of the old regime to fend off challenges to its authority at home and its prestige abroad.

Recenzje

"Peter Gatrell has produced a detailed and voluminous study of the Russian defense industry....Peter Gatrell's work is of primary importance to economic historians who want an up-to-date critique of the tsarist defense industry in the period leading up to World War I....The conclusions are judicious and are supported by thorough documentation some it resting on work in the Russian archives. Gatrell's study is unlikely to change our view of the late tsarist regime, but it does enrich it considerably." Daniel W. Graf, The Journal of Military History

Spis treści

1. Defence and the economy on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War; 2. War and revolution, retrenchment and recession; 3. The defence burden, 1907–14; 4. The economics and politics of industrial recovery; 5. The armaments industry: the search for identity and influence, 1908–14; 6. The economics and politics of defence procurement; 7. Military preparedness on the eve of the first world war.