Russia's Economic Transitions
Subtitle: From Late Tsarism to the New Millennium
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 28, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780521816991
Subjects: Economics; Economics - General; Business / Economics / Finance; Business & Economics; Soviet Union; Business/Economics; Central Europe; Eastern Europe; Russia; International - General; 1991-; Business & Economics / Economics / General; 1861-1917; Economic Conditions; Russia (Federation)
First sentence: 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.