Author: Victor L. MotePublisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Case Study of the BAM and East Siberian Transport Capacity Problems
Author: Victor L. MotePublisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Gorbachev's Economic Plans
Author: Brezhnev's Folly
Author: Christopher J. WardPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822971216
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Heralded by Soviet propaganda as the "Path to the Future," the Baikal-Amur Mainline Railway (BAM) represented the hopes and dreams of Brezhnev and the Communist Party elite of the late Soviet era. Begun in 1974, and spanning approximately 2,000 miles after twenty-nine years of halting construction, the BAM project was intended to showcase the national unity, determination, skill, technology, and industrial might that Soviet socialism claimed to embody. More pragmatically, the Soviet leadership envisioned the BAM railway as a trade route to the Pacific, where markets for Soviet timber and petroleum would open up, and as an engine for the development of Siberia. Despite these aspirations and the massive commitment of economic resources on its behalf, BAM proved to be a boondoggle-a symbol of late communism's dysfunctionality-and a cruel joke to many ordinary Soviet citizens. In reality, BAM was woefully bereft of quality materials and construction, and victimized by poor planning and an inferior workforce. Today, the railway is fully complete, but remains a symbol of the profligate spending and inefficiency that characterized the Brezhnev years.In Brezhnev's Folly, Christopher J. Ward provides a groundbreaking social history of the BAM railway project. He examines the recruitment of hundreds of thousands of workers from the diverse republics of the USSR and other socialist countries, and his extensive archival research and interviews with numerous project workers provide an inside look at the daily life of the BAM workforce. We see firsthand the disorganization, empty promises, dire living and working conditions, environmental damage, and acts of crime, segregation, and discrimination that constituted daily life during the project's construction. Thus, perhaps, we also see the final irony of BAM: that the most lasting legacy of this misguided effort to build Soviet socialism is to shed historical light on the profound ills afflicting a society in terminal decline.
Siberia and the Soviet Far East
Author: David Norman CollinsPublisher: Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Soviet Asia
Author: Leslie DienesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100024055X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This work examines the geographic position of soviet Asia in the overall econany of the USSR and analyzes the impact of major national policy issues on its development and prospects. The Asian USSR constitutes three-fourths of the country's territory, an area exceeding the size of Brazil and Australia combined. Its acquisition was the result of Russian expansion and conquest in the past 499 years. This vast territory is still hinterland to the European USSR, weakly and unevenly integrated into the country's economic and societal mainstream. Moreover, the Asian USSR is hardly unifonn, culturally or otherwise. Its regions play very different roles in the Soviet spatial system and are affected by different policy choices on the national level. On the one hand, there are striking contrasts between Moslem Central Asia and Siberia (including the Far East). On the other hand, the Siberian regions are also assigned different economic and strategic roles according to their resource endovnent, their links to the economic power centers in the European USSR (partly a function of their east-west and north-south positions) and their strategic vulnerability or importance.
Siberia and the Soviet Far East
Author: Rodger SwearingenPublisher: Hoover Institution Press
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Collection of essays on Siberia and its past, present and future roles in the Soviet and global economies.
Soviet Economy
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Former Soviet republics
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Bibliographic Guide to Business and Economics
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
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Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
The Soviet Far East
Author: Allan RodgersPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000882012
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
The Soviet Far East (1990) examines the largest economic region in the Soviet Union, the Far East. The region is explored in all its geographical and economic complexity. Chapters on the state of its development under Gorbachev (and his programme of investment) are supplemented by examinations of the history of its settlement, analysis of its unique environment and the threats which economic growth might pose for it, and of the region’s vital strategic significance to the Soviet Union.
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