Russia's Economic Transitions
Subtitle: From Late Tsarism to the New Millennium
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 9, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780521024587
Subjects: Economic history; Economics; Economics - General; Business / Economics / Finance; Business & Economics; Business/Economics; Russia; 1991-; Business & Economics / Economic Conditions; Business & Economics / Economics / General; 1861-1917; Economic Conditions; Russia (Federation); Soviet Union
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.