"The war in Ukraine, with the exposure of nuclear power stations and the danger of atomic warfare, has made the legacy of the Soviet nuclear sector of critical importance. The two authors map the Soviet nuclear industry in a shifting historical context, making sense of a complex socio-technical...

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...

1. Geographical and historical outline -- 2. A note on the political structure -- 3. Industrialization -- 4. Agriculture -- 5. Social services -- 6. Finance -- 7. Incomes -- 8. Comparisons with neighbors -- 9. Assessment.

In virtually all advanced industrialized countries, the explosive topic of immigration has engendered heated argument, political anger, cultural anxieties, and blatant racism. In the United States, most of the attention is on the stream of Mexicans crossing the border in such numbers that early...