Author : J. Westwood
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,91 MB
Release : 2001-12-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0230285872
Book Description
In the postsoviet decade Russian railways remained highly centralised, evaded the upheavals of mass privatisation, and remained the backbone of a demoralised economy. Preserving much of Soviet practice, the Railways Ministry mounted a skilled rearguard action that achieved a gradual and considered adaptation to the market economy rather than the pell-mell, western-orientated, liberalisation that afflicted other branches of the economy. This book describes that rearguard action, and goes on to show how railway managers are coping with the new conditions.