What Difference Does a Railroad Make? Transportation and Settlement in the BAM Region in Historical Perspective

Soviet and post-Soviet Siberian worlds combine physical and social remoteness with phases of accelerated industrialization campaigns. One such region is the one traversed by the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) and located in mountainous landscapes underlain by permafrost. In pre-Soviet and early Soviet t...

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Main Authors: Povoroznyuk, Olga, Schweitzer, Peter
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: Routledge 2023
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429354663-30