Part of the drive towards industrialization promoted by Sergei Witte, Minister of Finances under Alexander III and Nicholas II, the trans-Siberian railway was the most powerful statement of Russia's intention to become a major industrial power, and was a turning point in the colonization of her eastern lands. Marks relates the debates about the railway's construction, analyzes the government's motives for committing its resources to so vast a project, and examines the railway's economic consequences for the colonization and economic development of Siberia.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Editions-Typ
Illustrationen
illustrations, bibliography, index
Maße
Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85043-345-3 (9781850433453)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Part 1 Impetus: a weak and distant domain; an appetite for Asia; Siberia is for Russia. Part 2 Debate and decision: divergent visions; the vital nerve and the tail end; bureaucracy prolix. Part 3 Creation: a state within a state; Witte and the taming of the wild east; monument to bungling; the limits of railroad colonization.
