Beschreibung:
Reveals Lenin's dealings with Western business through a study of Russian railways.
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Towards Economic Reconstruction, 1917¿20: The Birth of the Railway Imports Policy: 1. Prologue; 2. The revolutionary railway vision; Part II. Trade and Isolation, 1920¿1: Implementing the Railway Imports Policy: 3. Krasin's first results; 4. Approaches to Britain and Germany; 5. Second thoughts; Part III. Retreat, 1921¿4: 6. The new order; 7. Denouement; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.