Soviet Railways to Russian Railways
ISBN:
978-0-333-67417-8
Auflage:
2002
Verlag:
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Land des Verlags:
Vereinigtes Königreich
Erscheinungsdatum:
03.12.2001
Reihe:
Studies in Russian and East European History and Society
Format:
Hardcover
Seitenanzahl:
255
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In the postsoviet decade Russian railways remained highly centralised, evaded the upheavals of mass privatisation, and remained the backbone of a demoralised economy. Preserving much of Soviet practice, the Railways Ministry mounted a skilled rearguard action that achieved a gradual and considered adaptation to the market economy rather than the pell-mell, western-orientated, liberalisation that afflicted other branches of the economy. This book describes that rearguard action, and goes on to show how railway managers are coping with the new conditions.
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Biografische Anmerkung
J. N. WESTWOOD is Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham. He was an economist with Canadian National Railways before changing to an academic career in Russian studies. He is author of A History of Russian Railways, Soviet Railways Today, Soviet Locomotive Technology and Endurance and Endeavour: Russian History 1812-1992.
