The Electrification of Russia, 1880–1926

dc.creator	Coopersmith, Jonathan
dc.date.accessioned	2016-06-23T16:19:31Z
dc.date.available	2016-06-23T16:19:31Z
dc.date.issued	1992-11-01
dc.identifier.isbn	9781501707162
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/156679
dc.description	Russia, 1880–1926 is the first full account of the widespread adoption of electricity in Russia, from the beginning in the 1880s to its early years as a state technology under Soviet rule. Jonathan Coopersmith has mined the archives for both the tsarist and the Soviet periods to examine a crucial element in the modernization of Russia. Coopersmith shows how the Communist Party forged an alliance with engineers to harness the socially transformative power of this science-based enterprise. A centralized plan of electrification triumphed, to the benefit of the Communist Party and the detriment of local governments and the electrical engineers. Coopersmith's narrative of how this came to be elucidates the deep-seated and chronic conflict between the utopianism of Soviet ideology and the reality of Soviet politics and economics.	en
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Cornell University Press
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
dc.subject	Russia	en
dc.subject	European History	en
dc.title	The Electrification of Russia, 1880–1926	en
dc.type	Book	en
local.department	History	en

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