The Electrification Of Russia 1880 1926
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The Electrification Of Russia 1880 1926
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Author : Jonathan Coopersmith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Electrification Of Russia 1880 1926 written by Jonathan Coopersmith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Business & Economics categories.
"Coopersmith's main interest is the social and political context of the new technology, and throughout his narrative he shows the principal effects of political change on the diffusion and adoption of technological innovation. Among the topics he covers are the early importance of the tsarist military to the electrification movement, the major role of international technology transfer, the ways in which tsarist policies slowed economic development, and the war-engendered rise to political prominence of the electrical engineers. The tsarist authorities, he argues, saw electrification as a "normal" technology, one that required no special or unusual treatment. The Soviet authorities, by contrast, grasped the key importance of political control over a "natural" monopoly on which Russian industrialization was based. Coopersmith shows how the Communist party, forging an alliance with engineers through the State Commission for the Electrification of Russia (GOELRO), harnessed the socially transforming power of this science-based enterprise. Despite the promotion of technological alternatives during the New Economic Policy, a centralized plan of electrification triumphed to the benefit of the Communist party and the detriment of local governments and the electrical engineers.".
The Electrification Of Russia 1880 1925
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Author : Jonathan Coopersmith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The Electrification Of Russia 1880 1925 written by Jonathan Coopersmith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Electric industries categories.
The Electrification Of Russia 1880 1925
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Author : Jonathan Coopersmith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The Electrification Of Russia 1880 1925 written by Jonathan Coopersmith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Electric industries categories.
Industry State And Society In Stalin S Russia 1926 1934
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Author : David R. Shearer
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-05
Industry State And Society In Stalin S Russia 1926 1934 written by David R. Shearer and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-05 with History categories.
In his reexamination of the origins of the Stalinist state during the formative period of rapid industrialization in the late 1920s and early 1930s, David R. Shearer argues that a centralized state-controlled economic system was the consciously conceived political creation of Stalinist leaders rather than the inevitable by-product of socialist industrialization. Focusing on the different economic and bureaucratic cultures within the industrial system, Shearer reconstructs the debates in 1928 and 1929 over administrative, financial, and commercial reform. He uses information from recently opened archives to show that attempts by the state's trading organizations to create a commercial economy enjoyed wide support, offering a model that combined planning and rapid industrialization with social democracy and economic prosperity. In an effort to crush the syndicate movement and establish tight political control over the economy, Stalinist leaders intervened with a program of radical reforms. Shearer demonstrates that professional engineers, planners and industrial administrators in many cases actively supported the creation of a powerful industrial state unhampered by domestic social and economic constraints. The paradoxical result, Shearer shows, was a loss of control. The overly centralized system that emerged during the first Five-Year Plan was rendered incoherent by periodic economic crises and the continuing influence of partially suppressed social and market forces.
The End And The Beginning
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Author : Vladimir Tismaneanu
language : en
Publisher: Central European University Press
Release Date : 2012-05-15
The End And The Beginning written by Vladimir Tismaneanu and has been published by Central European University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-15 with History categories.
A fresh interpretation of the contexts, meanings, and consequences of the revolutions of 1989, coupled with state of the art reassessment of the significance and consequences of the events associated with the demise of communist regimes. The book provides an analysis that takes into account the complexities of the Soviet bloc, the events? impact upon Europe, and their re-interpretation within a larger global context. Departs from static ways of analysis (events and their significance) bringing forth approaches that deal with both pre-1989 developments and the 1989 context itself, while extensively discussing the ways of resituating 1989 in the larger context of the 20th century and of its lessons for the 21st. Emphasizes the possibility for re-thinking and re-visiting the filters and means that scholars use to interpret such turning point. The editors perceive the present project as a challenge to existing readings on the complex set of issues and topics presupposed by a re-evaluation of 1989 as a symbol of the change and transition from authoritarianism to democracy.
Fuel And Power
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Author : Jeronim Perović
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-06-30
Fuel And Power written by Jeronim Perović and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-30 with Business & Economics categories.
A very timely study of Russia's emergence as a global energy power from the Russian Revolution to the present day. It reveals how Russian exports shaped global energy flows as well as how international trade impacted the fabric of the country's foreign relations and, ultimately, the course of Russian history.
Lumen Naturae
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Author : Matilde Marcolli
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2020-05-26
Lumen Naturae written by Matilde Marcolli and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-26 with Mathematics categories.
Exploring common themes in modern art, mathematics, and science, including the concept of space, the notion of randomness, and the shape of the cosmos. This is a book about art—and a book about mathematics and physics. In Lumen Naturae (the title refers to a purely immanent, non-supernatural form of enlightenment), mathematical physicist Matilde Marcolli explores common themes in modern art and modern science—the concept of space, the notion of randomness, the shape of the cosmos, and other puzzles of the universe—while mapping convergences with the work of such artists as Paul Cezanne, Mark Rothko, Sol LeWitt, and Lee Krasner. Her account, focusing on questions she has investigated in her own scientific work, is illustrated by more than two hundred color images of artworks by modern and contemporary artists. Thus Marcolli finds in still life paintings broad and deep philosophical reflections on space and time, and connects notions of space in mathematics to works by Paul Klee, Salvador Dalí, and others. She considers the relation of entropy and art and how notions of entropy have been expressed by such artists as Hans Arp and Fernand Léger; and traces the evolution of randomness as a mode of artistic expression. She analyzes the relation between graphical illustration and scientific text, and offers her own watercolor-decorated mathematical notebooks. Throughout, she balances discussions of science with explorations of art, using one to inform the other. (She employs some formal notation, which can easily be skipped by general readers.) Marcolli is not simply explaining art to scientists and science to artists; she charts unexpected interdependencies that illuminate the universe.
Russia S First World War
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Author : Peter Gatrell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-10
Russia S First World War written by Peter Gatrell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-10 with History categories.
The story of Russia’s First World War remains largely unknown, neglected by historians who have been more interested in the grand drama that unfolded in 1917. In Russia’s First World War: A Social and Economic History Peter Gatrell shows that war is itself ‘revolutionary’ – rupturing established social and economic ties, but also creating new social and economic relationships, affiliations, practices and opportunities. Russia’s First World War brings together the findings of Russian and non-Russian historians, and draws upon fresh research. It turns the spotlight on what Churchill called the ‘unknown war’, providing an authoritative account that finally does justice to the impact of war on Russia’s home front
Energy Culture
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Author : Jillian Porter
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-04-06
Energy Culture written by Jillian Porter and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume investigates energy as a shaping force in Russian and Soviet literature, visual culture, and social practice. Chronologically arranged chapters explain how nineteenth-century ideas about energy informed realist novels and paintings; how the poetics of energy defined pre-Revolutionary and Stalinist utopianism; and how fossil fuels, electricity, and nuclear fission generated distinct aesthetic features in Imperial Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet literature, cinema, and landscape. The volume’s concentration on Russia responds to a clear need to understand the role the country plays in social, political, and economic processes endangering life on Earth today. The cultural dimension of Russia’s efforts at energy dominance deserves increased scholarly attention not only in its own right, but also because it directly affects global energy policy. As the contributors to this volume argue, the nationally inflected cultural myths that underlie human engagements with energy have been highly consequential in the Anthropocene.
A Will Within A Wheel
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Author : T.R. Ormond
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2024-02-02
A Will Within A Wheel written by T.R. Ormond and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-02 with Fiction categories.
Six-day races, record-breaking rides, and renegade leagues are at the heart of this fascinating short fiction collection that explores women’s competitive cycling in the late Victorian era. Each of the stories contained in this meticulously researched collection focuses on a distinct racing event and the individual “ladies” who competed in them—like the indomitable Tillie Anderson—who mustered every muscle and every ounce of strength to prove that women had a place in the world of cycling. Overcoming constant scrutiny, judgement, chauvinism, exploitation, and even danger, these racers pedaled their way into annals of feminism, freedom, and cycling history.