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Bankers and Bolsheviks

2018
Following an unprecedented economic boom fed by foreign investment, the Russian Revolution triggered the worst sovereign default in history. This book tells the dramatic story of this boom and bust, chronicling the forgotten experiences of leading financiers of the age.
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Bolshevik Culture

1989
In the tumultuous years after the revolution of 1917, the traditional cutlure of Imperial Russia was both destroyed and preserved, as a new Soviet culture began to take shape. This book focuses on the interaction between the emerging political and cultural policies of the Soviet regime and the deeply held traditional values of the worker and peasant ...
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The Bolshevik response

1992
Violent peasant and non-Russian resistance to Soviet power forced the Bolsheviks to recognize and to deal with the major social disparities within the largest country in the world. Although the tsarist political order collapsed in the spring of 1917, the social, economic and cultural legacy of the old order remained. Beginning in the sixteenth century,
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Bolshevik Spies

Abstract This chapter examines how Russia's intelligence failures during the Russo-Japanese War led to comprehensive reforms that inadvertently benefited the Bolsheviks after 1917. Following systematic post-1905 reforms, Russia developed an efficient intelligence service with dramatically increased funding and professional ...
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