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The Russian Rockefellers : the Saga of the Nobel Family and the Russian Oil Industry.

The name of Nobel usually calls to mind Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, and the internationally prestigious prizes that bear his name. But Alfred was only one member of a creative and innovative family who built an industrial empire in prerevolutionary Russia. The saga begins with an emigre from...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tolf, Robert W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : Hoover Institution Press, 2020.
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505 0 |a Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Preface -- Introduction -- Illustrations -- Chapter -- 1. The Beginnings -- 2. Fame and Fortune -- 3. A New Nobel Enterprise -- 4. The World's First Oil Tankers -- 5. A Leader in Industry -- 6. BRANOBEL and the Brothers Nobel -- 7. Europe's Second Thirty-Years War -- 8. Exit the King -- 9. Divide the World -- 10. New Directions -- 11. Karl Vasilievich Hagelin -- 12. Revolution on the Caspian -- 13. Another Nobel Enterprise -- 14. One Step Forward, Two Steps Back -- 15. End of an Empire 
505 8 |a 16. Krassin and the Communists -- 17. Exit Nobelevski -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index 
520 |a The name of Nobel usually calls to mind Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, and the internationally prestigious prizes that bear his name. But Alfred was only one member of a creative and innovative family who built an industrial empire in prerevolutionary Russia. The saga begins with an emigre from Sweden, Immanuel Nobel, who was an architect, a pioneer producer of steam engines, and a maker of armaments, including the underwater mines that were widely used in the Crimean War. Immanuel's sons included Alfred; Robert, who directed the family's activities in the Caspian oil fields; and Ludwig, an engineering genius and manufacturing magnate whose boundless energy and fierce determination created the Russian petroleum industry. Ludwig's son Emanuel showed similar mettle, shrewdly bargaining with the Rothschilds for control of the Russian markets and competing head-on with Standard Oil, Royal Dutch, and Shell for lucrative world markets. Emanuel not only expanded the Russian oil industry but also helped to modernize the Russian navy and commanded a fleet of three hundred ships.Perhaps no family in history has played so decisive a role in building an industrial empire in an underdeveloped but resource-rich nation. Yet the achievements of the Nobel family have been largely forgotten. When the Bolsheviks came to power, the empire, which had taken eighty years to design and build, was nearly destroyed, bringing a sudden and bitter end to one of the most remarkable industrial odysseys in world history. -- Provided by publisher. 
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