This book explores the housing problem throughout the 70 years of Soviet history, looking at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of housing under socialism, successive government policies on housing, and the meaning and experience of 'home' for Soviet citizens. Attwood examines the...

Heralded by Soviet propaganda as the "Path to the Future," the Baikal-Amur Mainline Railway (BAM) represented the hopes and dreams of Brezhnev and the Communist Party elite of the late Soviet era. Begun in 1974, and spanning approximately 2,000 miles after twenty-nine years of halting...

Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Do You Have What It Takes to Be an Entrepreneur? -- Personality traits of great technical entrepreneurs -- Are all technical entrepreneurs natural-born? -- Every entrepreneur needs...

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- The Collectivization of Agriculture in Eastern Europe: Entanglements and Transnational Comparisons -- I. The Interwar Soviet Model and its Post-1945 Application in the Newly Annexed...

Front cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- List of Graphs -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword and overview -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The background -- 1.2 (Another) delimitation of the subject -- 1.3 Managerial power and the bogey of spontaneous privatisation...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Introduction: climate and agriculture in Russia -- The availability and reliability of statistical agricultural data for Russia -- The pre-revolutionary period ( 1900-1916) -- The post-revolutionary period ( 1917-1928)...