Modernisation in Russia since 1900
Markku Kangaspuro and Jeremy Smith
Essays on how Russia tried to modernise across a century, from late tsarism and Soviet industrialisation to the reforms of the 1990s and 2000s. Includes data tables on population, work and education in the USSR.
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