The Road to Power: Trans-Siberian Railway and the Colonization of Asian Russia, 1850-1927 （New）

Marks, Steven G.

I B Tauris & Co Ltd（1991/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 288 p.
• 商品コード 9781850433453
• DDC分類 385.0957

Full Description

Part of the drive towards industrialization promoted by Sergei Witte, Minister of Finances under Alexander III and Nicholas II, the trans-Siberian railway was the most powerful statement of Russia's intention to become a major industrial power, and was a turning point in the colonization of her eastern lands. Marks relates the debates about the railway's construction, analyzes the government's motives for committing its resources to so vast a project, and examines the railway's economic consequences for the colonization and economic development of Siberia.

Contents

Part 1 Impetus: a weak and distant domain; an appetite for Asia; Siberia is for Russia. Part 2 Debate and decision: divergent visions; the vital nerve and the tail end; bureaucracy prolix. Part 3 Creation: a state within a state; Witte and the taming of the wild east; monument to bungling; the limits of railroad colonization.