John F. Stevens
Author : Jacqueline D. Saint John
Publisher :
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 33,54 MB
Release : 1977
Category :
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Prologue
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Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Archives
ISBN :
Book Description
John F. Stevens and His Role in the Struggle for the Control of the Chinese Eastern Railway, 1917-1922
Author : James John Delanty
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 21,82 MB
Release : 1980
Category : China
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Book Description
The Czech and Slovak Legion in Siberia, 1917-1922
Author : Joan McGuire Mohr
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 20,2 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0786488514
Book Description
During World War I, a specialized Russian battalion comprised of ethnic Czechs and Czech and Slovak prisoners of war--the Legion--became a pawn in an international game of power and deceit. The Legion's detour through Siberia became the greatest human interest story of the war, chronicled weekly in the New York Times and New York Herald. More than half of the Legion's troops lost their lives as the evacuation of Czech and Slovak POWs through Vladivostok precipitated the murder of the Russian royal family and forced the Legion to act as protectors of the Russian treasury and the Trans-Siberian Railway while the White and Red armies battled. For political purposes, tales of the Legion's odyssey have been buried or expunged. This volume offers the seminal account of this hidden yet epic journey, shedding light on a fascinating but forgotten facet of World War I.
Reconstructing Russia
Author : Leo J. Bacino
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 32,50 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780873386357
Book Description
This volume focuses on the Wilson administration's efforts to find some way to provide economic support to Russian Siberia as a counterpoint to German economic influence. Leo C. Bacino examines Wilson's Russian policy from a government-wide perspective, analyzing several significant issues.
John Frank Stevens, 1853-1943
Author : Miles Percy DuVal (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 41,7 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Engineers
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Book Description
Modernising Lenin's Russia
Author : Anthony Heywood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 31,73 MB
Release : 1999-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1139431250
Book Description
In this book Anthony Heywood reassesses Bolshevik attitudes towards economic modernization and foreign economic relations during the early Soviet period. Based on hitherto unused Russian and Western archives, he examines an extraordinary decision made in March 1920 to import vast quantities of railway equipment. The book argues that under War Communism and the NEP railway modernization was vital to a strategy of rapid economic modernization, and provides the first detailed case study of the government's import policy. Following the histories of the principal contracts, it analyses Soviet foreign trade as a means to tackle domestic economic challenges. This book provides readers with a new perspective on Soviet economic development, and reveals the scale of Bolshevik business dealings with the capitalist West immediately after the Revolution.
Bankers and Diplomats in China 1917-1925
Author : Roberta Allbert Dayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 32,98 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1135167583
Book Description
First Published in 1981. Contrary to Chairman Mao's assertion that political power comes from the barrel of a gun, this study contends that political power in China in the early 1920s emanated from the boardrooms of foreign banks. The author's interest in the way financial concerns have shaped foreign policy began with the discovery that the Lloyd George government attempted to influence the American government's policy on the British war debts by offering concessions concerning the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. This study should provide understanding concerning the causes of Chinese bitterness as well as suggest the conflicts experienced by diplomats in balancing public and private interests.
John Frank Stevens
Author : Clifford Foust
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 14,11 MB
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0253010691
Book Description
One of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years, John Frank Stevens was a railway reconnaissance and location engineer whose reputation was made on the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern lines. Self-taught and driven by a bulldog tenacity of purpose, he was hired by Theodore Roosevelt as chief engineer of the Panama Canal, creating a technical achievement far ahead of its time. Stevens also served for more than five years as the head of the US Advisory Commission of Railway Experts to Russia and as a consultant who contributed to many engineering feats, including the control of the Mississippi River after the disastrous floods of 1927 and construction of the Boulder (Hoover) Dam. Drawing on Stevens's surviving personal papers and materials from projects with which he was associated, Clifford Foust offers an illuminating look into the life of an accomplished civil engineer.
Preliminary Inventories
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Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,21 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Archives
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