The electrification of russia, 1880-1926 /

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Here is the first full account of the widespread adoption of electricity in Russia, from the beginning in the 1880s to its early years as a state technology under Soviet rule. Jonathan Coopersmith has mined the archives for both the tsarist and the Soviet periods to examine a crucial element in the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Coopersmith, Jonathan, 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Series:Open Access e-Books
Subjects:
1861-1945
Electrification > Economic aspects > Soviet Union.
Electric industries > Soviet Union > History.
Électrification > Aspect économique > URSS.
Industries électriques > URSS > Histoire.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Economic history
Electric industries
Electrification > Economic aspects
Elektrifizierung
Russia > Economic conditions > 1861-1945.
Russia
Soviet Union
Russland
Sowjetunion
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The shaping of a technology
  • Government and growth in Imperial Russia, 1870-1886
  • Electrification, 1886-1914
  • The rise of electrification, 1914-1917
  • Feasting eyes, hungry stomachs, 1917-1920
  • GOELRO: the creation of a dream, 1920-1921
  • The NEP Years, 1921-1926
  • Shifting grounds, shifting goals.

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