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Description edit
This book is concerned with Russia's economic transition from a predominantly feudal economy to a capitalist economy; from an economy based on private ownership, to one based exclusively on state ownership, and finally, from the latter back to private ownership and market-directed relations.... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Mikhail Gorbachev: Add a description of this character.
- Boris Yeltsin
- Lenin
- Alexander
- Stalin
- La Russie
- Witte
- George
- Marx
- Miller
- Plekhanov
- Goskomstat
- Gregory
- M. W.
- Putin
- Peter
- Sergei
- Rossii
- Paul R.
- Margaret
- Gossnab
- Khromov
- Vladimir
- Kovalevsky
- Macmillan
- Trotsky
- Gaidar
- P. I.
- Nicolas
- Michael
- Moulton
- Vyshnegradskii
- Anatole
- Popov
- Yavlinsky
- Leon
- Richard
- Karl
- V. I.
- Kahan
- P. G.
Setting & Locations edit
- Russian Federation
- Moscow
- United States
- Germany
- European Russia
- Ussr
- France
- New York
- Paris
- Pravda
- London
- Japan
- Poland
- Gosbank
- Great Britain
- West Siberia
- United Kingdom
- Cambridge
- Finland
- Washington
- Imperial Russia
- China
- Canada
- Ukraine
- Turkey
- Central Asia
- Italy
- Romania
- Euro-russia
- Tsarist Russia
- England
- Far East
- Western Europe
- Hungary
- Sweden
- Petrograd
- Baku
- Ural
- Belgium
- North Caucasus
- Bulgaria
- Georgia
First Sentence edit
The humiliating defeat of the Russian Empire in the Crimean War (1853-6) by an Anglo-French expeditionary force of only seventy thousand men assisting Turkey, the "sick man of Europe," revealed clearly the Russian incompetence at the highest political and military levels, the inferiority of the quality of Russia's armaments, the absence of an adequate system of transportation for moving troops on her own territory, and Russia's overall backwardness.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Nicolas Spulber (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 330
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