The Russian economy relies on the Russian freight railways to an extraordinary degree. In 2001, after years of debate, the Russian government adopted an ambitious plan to transform this vertically integrated, government owned monopoly into a system that would rely more on private investment and...

One important determinant of the speed and success of transition will be the efficiency of transformation and development of the infrastructure sectors. A great deal of attention has been paid to issues such as privatisation, restructuring, user prices, and terms of access in these sectors,...

This book reassesses Bolshevik attitudes towards economic modernisation and foreign economic relations under Lenin. It examines the decision to import vast quantities of railway equipment in order to achieve rapid economic modernisation, and reveals the scale of Bolshevik business dealings with...