For Peace and Money
French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars
From the late imperial period until 1922, the British and French made private and government loans to Russia, making it the foremost international debtor country in pre-World War I Europe. To finance the modernization of industry, the construction of public works projects, the building of railroads, and the development of the military-industrial complex, Russia's ministers of finance, municipal leaders, and nascent manufacturing class turned, time and time again, to foreign capital. From the forging of the Franco-Russian alliance onwards, Russia's needs were met, first and foremost, by France and Great Britain, its allies, and diplomatic part…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-938783-0
- EAN: 9780199387830
- Produktnummer: 17504263
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 730 KB
Über den Autor
Jennifer Siegel is associate professor of history at The Ohio State University. She is the author of Endgame: Britain, Russia and the Final Struggle for Central Asia, which won the Barbara Jelavich Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and the co-editor of Intelligence and Statecraft : The Use and Limits of Intelligence in International Society.
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