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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
Hoover Institution Press,
2020.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 16. Krassin and the Communists
- 17. Exit Nobelevski
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index