Resource Curse and Post-Soviet Eurasia: Oil, Gas, and Modernization is an in-depth analysis on the impact of oil and gas abundance on political, economic, and social developments of Russia and other post-Soviet states and nations (such as Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan). The chapters of the book...

Cover -- Contents -- Chapter 1: General Information -- Chapter 2: How Does the Immune System Work? -- Chapter 3: Blood Types -- Chapter 4: Transplantation -- Chapter 5: Autoimmune Diseases -- Chapter 6: HIV and AIDS -- Chapter 7: Milestones in HIV -- Chapter 8: Allergies -- Chapter 9: Ethical...

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Concepts -- 1. Market and Plan: Typology of Plan Models -- 2. The Classical Plan: Stalinplan -- 3. The Neoclassical Plan: Conservative and Liberal -- 4....

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...