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Paperback Brezhnev's Folly: The Building of BAM and Late Soviet Socialism Book

ISBN: 0822961385

ISBN13: 9780822961383

Brezhnev's Folly: The Building of BAM and Late Soviet Socialism

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Heralded by Soviet propaganda as the \u201cPath to the Future, \u201d the Baikal-Amur Mainline Railway (BAM) represented the hopes and dreams of Brezhnev and the Communist Party elite of the late Soviet era. Begun in 1974, and spanning approximately 2,000 miles after twenty-nine years of halting construction, the BAM project was intended to showcase the national unity, determination, skill, technology, and industrial might that Soviet socialism claimed...

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