At the center of the periphery : oil, land, and power in Baku, 1905-1917
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- At the turn of the twentieth century, the output of the Baku oilfields accounted for half of the world's crude oil. This was not accomplished by government fiat or the workings of a monopoly, but by a large and variegated group of workers and entrepreneurs within well-defined market structures, a development all the more remarkable for its rarity in Russian history. However, the oil industry was already threatened by the seeds of its own success. As oil made the transition from a source of illumination to a source of energy, it became the subject not only of increased demand but of intense political contestation as well. The fate of the oil industry became entangled with the outcome of broader debates within Russian society about the proper role of the government in protecting the public interest and the legitimacy of private property. This dissertation recounts how these struggles played out and demonstrates their impact at the local and translocal levels: productive plots found no lessees, workers went on strike, restive villagers dug their own wells, and increasingly antagonized ethnic groups killed each other in growing numbers. All the while, the oil industry in Baku continued to decline, the first oil industry to do so under the weight of political pressure.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2013 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Lund, Nicholas |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of History. |
| Primary advisor | Weiner, Amir, 1961- |
| Thesis advisor | Weiner, Amir, 1961- |
| Thesis advisor | Naimark, Norman M |
| Thesis advisor | Astourian, Stephan H |
| Advisor | Naimark, Norman M |
| Advisor | Astourian, Stephan H |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Nicholas Lund. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2013. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2013 by Nicholas Alexander Lund
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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