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....

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Theoretical Reflections and the First Miners' Strike -- 1. Workers, Collective Action, and Political Movements -- 2. The 1989 Miners' Strike -- II. Cold Steel: Soviet Workers and Mutual Dependence -- 3. Steelworkers and Mutual Dependence...

Marx promoted the idea that economic laws were universal, but the Soviet Union tested his ideas on the premise that by eliminating private property they could eliminate markets and prices?and they tested that proposition on a grand scale. However, in managing an economy based on public...

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...