Modernising Lenin's Russia: Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade and the Railways

ISBN-13: 9780521621786 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 364 str.

Anthony Heywood (University of Bradford)

Opis

In this book Anthony Heywood reassesses Bolshevik attitudes toward economic modernization and foreign economic relations during the early Soviet period. Based on hitherto unused Russian and Western archives, the book examines an extraordinary decision made in March 1920 to import vast quantities of railway equipment in order to achieve rapid economic modernization. This is the first detailed case study of the government's import policy, and provides readers with a new perspective on Soviet economic development, revealing the scale of Bolshevik business dealings with the capitalist West immediately after the Revolution.

Recenzje

'This excellent book will interest scholars of soviet foreign policy as well as all who are concerned with early Soviet economic policy-making and the transition to NEP.' The Russian Review

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Towards Economic Reconstruction, 1917–20: The Birth of the Railway Imports Policy: 1. Prologue; 2. The revolutionary railway vision; Part II. Trade and Isolation, 1920–1: Implementing the Railway Imports Policy: 3. Krasin's first results; 4. Approaches to Britain and Germany; 5. Second thoughts; Part III. Retreat, 1921–4: 6. The new order; 7. Denouement; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.