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The electrification of Russia, 1880-1926 / Jonathan Coopersmith.

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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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Main Author: Coopersmith, Jonathan, 1955- (Author)
Other title:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1992.
Subjects:
Electrification > Economic aspects > Soviet Union.
Electric industries > Soviet Union > History.
Russia > Economic conditions > 1861-1917.
Soviet Union > Economic conditions > 1917-1945.
Economic history.
Electric industries.
Electrification > Economic aspects.
Russia.
Soviet Union.
History.
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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