1. The making of a Russian engineer -- 2. First steps in railway engineering -- 3. Engineering professor -- 4. The Russian Revolution of 1905 -- 5. Applications of science on the Russian railways, 1908-1914 -- 7. America and the Bolshevik Revolution -- 8. Building the new Russia -- 9. The diesel...

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...