Modernising Lenin's Russia

Description

In this book Anthony Heywood reassesses Bolshevik attitudes towards economic modernisation 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 modernisation was vital to a strategy of rapid economic modernisation, 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.

First Sentence

Much of the explanation for the railway imports policy of 1920-4 must be sought in the Bolshevik leadership's economic strategy and assessment of the international situation in the winter of 1919-20.

Subjects

Series Statement

• Cambridge Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet studies ;

Other Editions

• Modernising Lenin's Russia: economic reconstruction, foreign trade and the railwaysCambridge University Press1999-01-01
• Modernising Lenin's RussiaeBookCambridge University Press1999-01-01
• Modernising Lenin's RussiaPaperbackCambridge University Press2006-06-22
• Modernising Lenin's RussiaCambridge University Press2009-01-01