Intro -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- A Note on Transliteration, Names, and Translation -- A Note on the Relative Value of Money Then and Now -- Prologue: The Patrimony of Imperial Russia -- Introduction to Bolshevik Gold: The Nature of a Forgotten Problem -- I. The Heist -- 1. The Banks...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations, Acronyms, Technical Terms, and Conventions -- Note on References -- 1 The Dictator and Defense -- 2 Before Stalinism: The Early 1920s -- 3 Hierarchies and Markets: The Defense Industry Under Stalin -- 4 Planning the...

COVER -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- HARE KRISHNA -- MY THINKING -- AN ELEGY -- INSPIRATION -- PRAYINGS Of JATAYU -- PRAYER TO HANUMAN -- CONCENTRATION -- CHANDAMAMA -- PRAYER -- AFTER RETURNING FROM VANCOUVER -- COMPARISON -- A REAL FRIEND -- A-FEAST - AND A QUESTION -- WHY? -- THIS IS WHAT I FEEL...

Describing a rhetorical approach to crisis communication, this text reviews rhetorical perspective on organizational crisis, raising questions and provoking issues. It aims to add depth and a breadth of understanding to the analysis of the rhetorical implications of a crisis

Labor leader, social justice advocate, Chicano leader, and humanitarian are only some of the multifaceted renderings of CŽsar Ch‡vez. Ilan Stavans has compiled essays and first-person narratives that capture the multiple dimensions of this storied figure. To that end, Stavans's collection of...

Drawing on recently released Soviet archival materials, Hunger and War investigates state food supply policy and its impact on Soviet society during World War II. It explores the role of the state in provisioning the urban population, particularly workers, with food; feeding the Red army; the...

Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Workers Mobilize -- 2 The Klepikov Affair -- 3 The Liulin Affair -- 4 Battle at the Point of Production -- 5 To the Brink of Rebellion -- 6 The Teikovo Strike -- Conclusion -- Appendix: How Cloth was Manufactured -- Archival Sources --...

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...

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