Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Russian RockefellersCondition: NewSubtitle: The Saga of the Nobel Family and the Russian Oil IndustryEAN: 9780817965853ISBN: 9780817965853Publisher: Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Format: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/30/2020Description: The name of Nobel usually calls to mind Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, and the internationally prestigious prizes that bear his name. But Alfred was only one member of a creative and innovative family who built an industrial empire in prerevolutionary Russia. The saga begins with an emigré from Sweden, Immanuel Nobel, who was an architect, a pioneer producer of steam engines, and a maker of armaments, including the underwater mines that were widely used in the Crimean War.Immanuel's sons included Alfred; Robert, who directed the family's activities in the Caspian oil fields; and Ludwig, an engineering genius and manufacturing magnate whose boundless energy and fierce determination created the Russian petroleum industry. Ludwig's son Emanuel showed similar mettle, shrewdly bargaining with the Rothschilds for control of the Russian markets and competing head-on with Standard Oil, Royal Dutch, and Shell for lucrative world markets. Emanuel not only expanded the Russian oil industry but also helped to modernize the Russian navy and commanded a fleet of three hundred ships.Perhaps no family in history has played so decisive a role in building an industrial empire in an underdeveloped but resource-rich nation. Yet the achievements of the Nobel family have been largely forgotten. When the Bolsheviks came to power, the empire, which had taken eighty years to design and build, was nearly destroyed, bringing a sudden and bitter end to one of the most remarkable industrial odysseys in world history.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 446gAuthor: Robert W. TolfGenre: BiographyTopic: HistoryRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Russian Rockefellers
Title: The Russian Rockefellers
Subtitle: The Saga of the Nobel Family and the Russian Oil Industry
EAN: 9780817965853
ISBN: 9780817965853
Release Date: 06/30/2020
Release Year: 2020
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Biography
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 313 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Russian Rockefellers : the Saga of the Nobel Family and the Russian Oil Industry
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
Publication Year: 2020
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Item Weight: 15.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Robert W. Tolf
Subject Area: History
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
