Author: Alan M. BallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Russia's Last Capitalists
Author: Alan M. BallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Russia's Last Capitalists
Author: Alan M. BallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Soviet Union
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Annotation. In 1921 Lenin surprised foreign observers and many in his own Party, by calling for the legalization of private trade and manufacturing. Within a matter of months, this New Economic Policy (NEP) spawned many thousands of private entrepreneurs, dubbed Nepmen. After delineating this political background, Alan Ball turns his attention to the Nepmen themselves, examining where they came from, how they fared in competition with the socialist sector of the economy, their importance in the Soviet economy, and the consequences of their "liquidation" at the end of the 1920s. Alan Ball's history of this experiment with capitalism is strikingly relevant to current efforts toward economic reform in the USSR.
Russia's Last Capitalists
Author: Alan M. BallPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520910591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In 1921 Lenin surprised foreign observers and many in his own Party, by calling for the legalization of private trade and manufacturing. Within a matter of months, this New Economic Policy (NEP) spawned many thousands of private entrepreneurs, dubbed Nepmen. After delineating this political background, Alan Ball turns his attention to the Nepmen themselves, examining where they came from, how they fared in competition with the socialist sector of the economy, their importance in the Soviet economy, and the consequences of their "liquidation" at the end of the 1920s. Alan Ball's history of this experiment with capitalism is strikingly relevant to current efforts toward economic reform in the USSR.
Capitalist Russia and the West
Author: Jeffrey SurovellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351731181
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This title was first published in 2000: highly innovative work which challenges mainstream approaches to the study of Russian policy with its groundbreaking application of Marxism and dependency theories. Using class analysis, it examines, in a meticulously documented study, what is perhaps the most important issue in world politics today: Russia and the West. Unconventional yet powerful, it nevertheless comes up with highly persuasive conclusions. Whether one agrees with its challenging conclusions or not, they cannot be ignored.
The Oligarchs
Author: David E HoffmanPublisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 161039111X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
In this saga of brilliant triumphs and magnificent failures, David E. Hoffman, the former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, sheds light on the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs. Focusing on six of these ruthless men— Alexander Smolensky, Yuri Luzhkov, Anatoly Chubais, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Boris Berezovsky, and Vladimir Gusinsky—Hoffman shows how a rapacious, unruly capitalism was born out of the ashes of Soviet communism.
Reluctant Capitalists
Author: Linda M. RandallPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135957401
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Reluctant Capitalists examines Russia's plodding, sometimes painful, journey toward a free-market. Through case studies, interviews and first-hand observation, Randall tells us of Russia's economic troubles and offers suggestions for making market reform work.
The development of capitalism in Russia
Author: Vladimir Ilʹich LeninPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dialectical materialism
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution
Author: Antony Cyril SuttonPublisher: CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
ISBN: 1905570619
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Why did the 1917 American Red Cross Mission to Russia include more financiers than medical doctors? Rather than caring for the victims of war and revolution, its members seemed more intent on negotiating contracts with the Kerensky government, and subsequently the Bolshevik regime. In a courageous investigation, Antony Sutton establishes tangible historical links between US capitalists and Russian communists. Drawing on State Department files, personal papers of key Wall Street figures, biographies and conventional histories, Sutton reveals: The role of Morgan banking executives in funnelling illegal Bolshevik gold into the US; the co-option of the American Red Cross by powerful Wall Street forces; the intervention by Wall Street sources to free the Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky, whose aim was to topple the Russian government; the deals made by major corporations to capture the huge Russian market a decade and a half before the US recognized the Soviet regime; the secret sponsoring of Communism by leading businessmen, who publicly championed free enterprise. Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution traces the foundations of Western funding of the Soviet Union. Dispassionately, and with overwhelming documentation, the author details a crucial phase in the establishment of Communist Russia. This classic study - first published in 1974 and part of a key trilogy - is reproduced here in its original form. (The other volumes in the series include Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler and a study of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1933 Presidential election in the United States.)
Russia's Capitalist Revolution
Author: Anders ÅslundPublisher: Peterson Institute
ISBN: 0881325376
Category : Capitalism
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
The Oligarchs
Author: Claes EricsonPublisher: Stockholm Text
ISBN: 9187173085
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The Oligarchs is the dramatic but serious story about how a small group of young entrepreneurs could become some of the world’s richest men and get control of the president of a fallen super-power in the process.