Download or read book Soviet Railways to Russian Railways written by J. Westwood and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-12-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.