| Description |
1 online resource (70 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Preface; Russia's Struggle With Modernity 1815-1929; The Fear Of Modernity; The Results of 1812; Pobedonostsev, Witte, Stolypin And The Twilight Of The Romanovs; The Evolution Of The Revolutionary Underground; Lenin's Journey; The lessons of the Civil War.; The Gulags and the First Five Year Plan.; Back Matter; Also Available |
| Summary |
In 1917 Czarist Russia collapsed during the catastrophe of the First World War, but the tensions that had accumulated inside the empire for a century due to the challenges that modernisation presented were the real seeds of her undoing. The 19th Century was a battle for the soul of Russia, and it decided whether she would embrace liberal democracy and industrialisation like her contemporaries in Europe, or whether she would retreat into the past. In fact, she did both, and the human legacy o .. |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Defense industries -- Russia (Federation)
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Economic conversion -- Russia (Federation)
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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Defense industries
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Economic conversion
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| SUBJECT |
Russia (Federation)
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| Subject |
Russia (Federation)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781783330867 |
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1783330864 |
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