The Statesman's Year-Book
The Statesman's Year-Book

Author: S. Steinberg

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-26

Total Pages: 1691

ISBN-13: 0230270883

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The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

The Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
The Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

Author: Jonathan Smele

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2006-04-15

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 1441119922

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The Russian Revolution and Civil War in the years 1917 to 1921 is one of the most widely studied periods in history. It is also somewhat inevitably one that has generated a huge flow of literature in the decades that have passed since the events themselves. However, until now, historians of the revolution have had no dedicated bibliography of the period and little claim to bibliographical control over the literature. The Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921offers for the first time a comprehensive bibliographical guide to this crucial and fascinating period of history. The Bibliography focuses on the key years of 1917 to 1921, starting with the February Revolution of 1917 and concluding with the 10th Party Congress of March 1921, and covers all the key events of the intervening years. As such it identifies these crucial years as something more than simply the creation of a communist state.

Planning in Cold War Europe
Planning in Cold War Europe

Author: Michel Christian

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2018-10-08

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 3110532409

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The idea of planning economy and engineering social life has often been linked with Communist regimes’ will of control. However, the persuasion that social and economic processes could and should be regulated was by no means limited to them. Intense debates on these issues developed already during the First World War in Europe and became globalized during the World Economic crisis. During the Cold War, such discussions fuelled competition between two models of economic and social organisation but they also revealed the convergences and complementarities between them. This ambiguity, so often overlooked in histories of the Cold War, represents the central issue of the book organized around three axes. First, it highlights how know-how on planning circulated globally and were exchanged by looking at international platforms and organizations. The volume then closely examines specificities of planning ideas and projects in the Communist and Capitalist World. Finally, it explores East-West channels generated by exchanges around issues of planning which functioned irrespective of the Iron Curtain and were exported in developing countries. The volume thus contributes to two fields undergoing a process of profound reassessment: the history of modernisation and of the Cold War.