Beschreibung:
Ruth Roosa's long-awaited study focuses on the most important business organization in imperial Russia. the Association of Industry and Trade, the nerve center of Russian capitalism in the years between the revolutions of 1905 and 1917. The author's comprehensive, nuanced analysis of the Association's policy positions on Russian economic development has no peer. Of particular interest are the insights the study affords into the peculiarities of Russian business -- including the operation of semi-monopolistic syndicates and the role of imported capital, banks, and the autocratic state. It supplies historical perspective on some of the more perplexing features of the new Russian capitalism.
A beautiful and moving biography of Sadako Sasaki, the sixth-grade student whose death from leukemia inspired the movement that led to the Statue for the Children of the A-Bomb in Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park. -- Booklist Well-done. ... This book will appeal to a wide readership. ... Recommended. -- Library Journal