Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Between pages 160-161 -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Technical note -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Introduction -- PART I Towards economic reconstruction, 1917-1920 the birth of the railway imports policy -- 1 Prologue -- The pre-1914 context -- Wartime imports -- The Provisional government's largesse -- 2 The revolutionary railway vision -- Economic crisis, railway dreams -- The question of foreign resources -- Decision: imports for railway-led reconstruction -- PART II Trade and isolation, 1920-1921 implementing the railway imports policy -- 3 Krasin's first results -- The American dream -- Success in Sweden -- Administrative affairs -- 4 Approaches to Britain and Germany -- The British connection -- The road to Berlin -- The German questions -- 5 Second thoughts -- Trotskii, railway reconstruction and imports planning -- Moscow and the Russian Railway Mission Abroad -- Locomotive swan song -- PART III Retreat, 1921-1924 -- 6 The new order -- Change and continuity under the New Economic Policy -- Retrenchment -- Politics of scarcity: a conflict of interests -- Protectionism resurgent -- 7 Denouement -- The Avanesov commission -- Demise and results -- Epilogue: towards Stalinist industrialisation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Archive collections -- Publications -- Introduction -- 1 Prologue -- 2 The revolutionary railway vision -- 3 Krasin's first results -- 4 Approaches to Britain and Germany -- 5 Second thoughts -- 6 The new order -- 7 Denouement -- Bibliography -- Unpublished sources -- Archival collections -- PhD dissertations -- Research papers -- Miscellaneous -- Published sources -- Contemporary newspapers and periodicals -- Documents, reports, statistics, contemporary works and memoirs -- Selected secondary works.

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