Excerpts from Antony C. Sutton «Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development 1917 to 1930» In 1922 a concession was granted to Richard Kablitz, a Latvian firm, which took back its old prewar Petrograd factory and started again to produce steam boilers, mechanical stokers, fuel economizers, and similar equipment. This was by far the largest such plant in the U.S.S.R. Production expanded rapidly, and by the end of the decade Kablitz had equipped over 400 Russian factories with boilers and stoking equipment. In the last two years of the decade, Kablitz turnover was substantial: more than 900,000 rubles in 1925-6, 1.4 million in 1926-7 and more than 1.6 milli...
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Excerpts from Antony C. Sutton «Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development 1917 to 1930» In 1922 a concession was granted to Richard Kablitz, a Latvian firm, which took back its old prewar Petrograd factory and started again to produce steam boilers, mechanical stokers, fuel economizers, and similar equipment. This was by far the largest such plant in the U.S.S.R. Production expanded rapidly, and by the end of the decade Kablitz had equipped over 400 Russian factories with boilers and stoking equipment. In the last two years of the decade, Kablitz turnover was substantial: more than 900,000 rubles in 1925-6, 1.4 million in 1926-7 and more than 1.6 milli...
4th edition: escalation in 1988 By Wm. Robert Johnston. Last updated 18 August 2003. Introduction The following is an approximate description of the effects of a global nuclear war. For the purposes of illustration it is assumed that a war resulted in mid-1988 from military conflict between the Warsaw Pact and NATO. This is in some ways a worst-case scenario (total numbers of strategic warheads deployed by the superpowers peaked about this time; the scenario implies a greater level of military readiness; and impact on global climate and crop yields are greatest for a war in August). Some details, such as the time of attack, the events leading to war, and the wi...
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