{"product_id":"modernising-lenins-russia-economic-reconstruction-foreign-trade-and-the-railways-paperback-9780521027175","title":"Modernising Lenin's Russia; Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade and the Railways (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521027175","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eModernising Lenin's Russia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEconomic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade and the Railways\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book reveals Lenin's dealings with Western business through a study of Russian railways.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAnthony Heywood (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521027175, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 June 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e364 pages, 27 b\/w illus.  17 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.545 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn this book Anthony Heywood reassesses Bolshevik attitudes towards economic modernization and foreign economic relations during the early  Soviet period. Based on hitherto unused Russian and Western archives, he examines an extraordinary decision made in March 1920 to import vast quantities of railway equipment. The book argues that under War Communism and the NEP railway modernization was vital to a strategy of rapid economic modernization, and provides the first detailed case study of the government's import policy. Following the histories of the principal contracts, it analyses Soviet foreign trade as a means to tackle domestic economic challenges. This book provides readers with a new perspective on Soviet economic development, and reveals the scale of Bolshevik business dealings with the capitalist West immediately after the Revolution.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Towards Economic Reconstruction, 1917–20: The Birth of the Railway Imports Policy: 1. Prologue\u003cbr\u003e 2. The revolutionary railway vision\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Trade and Isolation, 1920–1: Implementing the Railway Imports Policy: 3. Krasin's first results\u003cbr\u003e 4. Approaches to Britain and Germany\u003cbr\u003e 5. Second thoughts\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Retreat, 1921–4: 6. The new order\u003cbr\u003e 7. Denouement\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: 20th century history: c 1900  to c 2000 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on 20th century history: c 1900  to c 2000\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%2220th%20century%20history:%20c%201900%20%20to%20c%202000%20%5BHBLW%5D%22\"\u003eHBLW\u003c\/a\u003e], European history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on European history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22European%20history%20%5BHBJD%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913146294552,"sku":"9780521027175","price":38.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521027175i_5adb8e3e-e85d-4784-8e28-31ed51c27aa3.jpg?v=1694964739","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/modernising-lenins-russia-economic-reconstruction-foreign-trade-and-the-railways-paperback-9780521027175","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}