Brezhnev's Folly The Building of BAM and Late Soviet Socialism |
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| Author:
| Ward, Christopher J. |
| Series title: | Pitt Russian East European Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8229-6138-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2009 |
| Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $27.95 |
Book Description:
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The first scholarly account of BAM (the Baikal-Amur Railway), Russia's most ambitious public construction project to be attempted in the final decades leading up to the collapse of the USSR. This is a rich social history based on a combination of original scholarly research and interviews with many of those who worked on BAM.
The first scholarly account of BAM (the Baikal-Amur Railway), Russia's most ambitious public construction project to be attempted in the final decades leading up to the collapse of the USSR. This is a rich social history based on a combination of original scholarly research and interviews with many of those who worked on BAM.