This paper shows that railroad building in Russia, as in Europe and the US in the nineteenth century, improved the value of land, a classic benefit of transportation investment in largely agrarian countries. From a database constructed for this paper, we use cross-sectional data for the fifty...

Introduction -- The agrarian question in the Russian Revolution: from material community to productivism, and back -- 'Socialism in one country' before Stalin, and the origins of reactionary 'anti-imperialism': the case of Turkey, 1917-25 -- The Spanish Revolution, past and future: grandeur and...