DIGIRENT - Brezhnev's Folly: The Building of BAM and Late Soviet Socialism (Pitt Russian East European)
Christopher J. Ward
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Brezhnev's Folly: The Building Christopher J. Ward epub Brezhnev's Folly: The Building Christopher J. Ward pdf download Brezhnev's Folly: The Building Christopher J. Ward pdf file Brezhnev's Folly: The Building Christopher J. Ward audiobook Brezhnev's Folly: The Building Christopher J. Ward book review Brezhnev's Folly: The Building Christopher J. Ward summary | #4821978 in Books | University of Pittsburgh Press | 2009-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.80 x6.00l,1.05 | File type: PDF | 256 pages | ||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A good book on a little know subject|By Chris|A good book on a little know subject!
It really does delve deeply into planning (or lack there of) of the BAM and its VERY poor execution. VERY highly recommended for anyone interested in the soviet Union and it's collapse.||
|“A fine, readable work on a neglected topic that offers insights not just into the construction of BAM, but into the larger realm of youth culture and work culture under Brezhnev.”|—Technology and Culture
Heralded by Soviet propaganda as the “Path to the Future,” the Baikal-Amur Mainline Railway (BAM) represented the hopes and dreams of Brezhnev and the Communist Party elite of the late Soviet era. Begun in 1974, and spanning approximately 2,000 miles after twenty-nine years of halting construction, the BAM project was intended to showcase the national unity, determination, skill, technology, and industrial might that Soviet socialism claimed to embody...
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