Road to power : the Trans-Siberian Railroad and the colonization of Asian Russia, 1850-1917
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Road to power : the Trans-Siberian Railroad and the colonization of Asian Russia, 1850-1917
I.B. Tauris, 1991
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Bibliography: p. 227-235
Includes index
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Description
Part of the drive towards industrialization promoted by Sergei Witte, Minister of Finances under Alexander III and Nicholas II, the trans-Siberian railway was the most powerful statement of Russia's intention to become a major industrial power, and was a turning point in the colonization of her eastern lands. Marks relates the debates about the railway's construction, analyzes the government's motives for committing its resources to so vast a project, and examines the railway's economic consequences for the colonization and economic development of Siberia.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Impetus: a weak and distant domain
- an appetite for Asia
- Siberia is for Russia. Part 2 Debate and decision: divergent visions
- the vital nerve and the tail end
- bureaucracy prolix. Part 3 Creation: a state within a state
- Witte and the taming of the wild east
- monument to bungling
- the limits of railroad colonization.
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