Soviet Railways to Russian Railways

by John N. Westwood

In the postsoviet decade Russian railways remained highly centralised, evaded the upheavals of mass privatisation, and remained the backbone of a demoralised economy. Preserving much of Soviet practice, the Railways Ministry mounted a skilled rearguard action that achieved a gradual and considered adaptation to the market economy rather than the pell-mell, western-orientated, liberalisation that afflicted other branches of the economy. This book describes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333674170
• ISBN13: 9780333674178
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.8"