| Series |
Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945
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| Contents |
The making of a Russian engineer -- Childhood -- An exclusive education -- First steps in railway engineering -- The science of locomotive testing -- "Scientific road experiments" -- Towards a professorship -- Engineering professor -- The battle for curricular reform -- Research : vision and realities -- The values of consulting -- The Russian Revolution of 1905 -- Liberalism and socialism -- Socialism, terrorism, and the future -- Applications of science on the Russian railways, 1908-1914 -- Management -- Research -- War and revolution, 1914-1917 -- Russia's railways at war -- The February Revolution -- America and the Bolshevik Revolution -- America -- Reactions to the October Revolution -- Across the Rubicon to Soviet Russia -- Building the new Russia -- A return to power? -- Soviet trade plenipotentiary -- The diesel revolution -- Russia and the technical challenges of dieselization -- Lomonosov and Soviet diesel traction -- Defeat -- "A free Soviet citizen abroad" -- A "non-returner"? -- Employment and domicile, 1927-1937 -- Retirement and remembrance. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-386) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010021616 |
| ISBN | 9780754655398 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781409412342 (ebook) |
