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MODERNISING

LENIN'S RUSSIA:

Economic

Reconstruction, Foreign

Trade and the Railways

ANTHONY HEYWOOD

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

MODERNISING LENIN'S RUSSIA

Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade and the Railways

In this book Anthony Heywood reassesses Bolshevik attitudes towards

economic modernisation and foreign economic relations during the early

Soviet period. Drawing on hitherto unused Russian and Western archives, he

argues that railway modernisation was vital to a strategy of rapid economic

modernisation, and that vast quantities of railway equipment were ordered

abroad to hasten this process. Following the histories of the principal

contracts, this book provides the ®rst detailed case study of the Soviet

government's imports policy under War Communism and the NEP, and

shows how foreign trade was used to tackle domestic economic challenges. It

presents 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.

anthony heywood is a Lecturer in the Department of European Studies at

the University of Bradford.

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MODERNISING LENIN'S RUSSIA

Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies: 105

Editorial Board

Stephen White (General editor) Roy Allison Mary Buckley

Julian Cooper Paul Dukes Saul Estrin

Catherine Merridale Hilary Pilkington

Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, under the auspices of Cam-

bridge University Press and the British Association for Slavonic and East

European Studies (BASEES), promotes the publication of works presenting

substantial and original research on the economics, politics, sociology and

modern history of Russia, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

A list of titles in this series can be found at the end of the book.

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Anthony Heywood - Modernising Lenin's Russia; Economic Reconstruction, Foreign Trade and the Railways (1999).pdf