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Klappentext This is a volume of essays exploring important themes in the economic and social history of Russia and the Soviet Union during the critical period between 1860 and 1930. It covers developments in agriculture, industry, trade, economic theory, defence policy and the social impact of revolution. The essays are written by well-established specialists in Russian and Soviet economic and social history and are intended as a tribute to the work of the highly-esteemed economic historian Olga Crisp. Zusammenfassung This is a volume of essays exploring important themes in the economic and social history of Russia and the Soviet Union during the critical period between 1860 and 1930. Inhaltsverzeichnis Frontispiece: Olga Crisp - Preface - Note on Transliteration - Notes on Contributors - Introduction: Olga Crisp's Contribution to the Economic History of Russia; P.Gatrell - Rents, Land Prices and Economic Theory: The Russian Economic Crisis; P.Gregory - Economic Change and the Russian Gentry, 1861-1914; R.Munting - The 1891/2 Famine in Russia: Towards a More Detailed Analysis of its Scale and Demographic Significance; S.G.Wheatcroft - 'A Worker in Disguise': A.V. Peshekhonov's Contribution to the Debate on the Peasant at the Turn of the Century; M.Perrie - Restructuring the Russian Petroleum Industry in the 1890s: Government Policy and Market Forces; J.P.McKay - British Merchant Houses in Russia before 1914; S.Thompstone - Defence Industries in Tsarist Russia, 1908-1913: Production, Employment and Military Procurement; P.Gatrell - 1917 in the Rear Garrisons; H.White - Lenin and Agrarian Economics in 1917; R.Service - Land Revolution and Land Reform: the Case of the Central Black Earth Region, 1917-24; J.Channon - Some Thoughts on the End of NEP; A.Nove - Soviet Defence Industries during the First Five-Year Plan; R.W.Davies - Bibliography of Olga Crisp's Publications - Index
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Frontispiece: Olga Crisp - Preface - Note on Transliteration - Notes on Contributors - Introduction: Olga Crisp's Contribution to the Economic History of Russia; P.Gatrell - Rents, Land Prices and Economic Theory: The Russian Economic Crisis; P.Gregory - Economic Change and the Russian Gentry, 1861-1914; R.Munting - The 1891/2 Famine in Russia: Towards a More Detailed Analysis of its Scale and Demographic Significance; S.G.Wheatcroft - 'A Worker in Disguise': A.V. Peshekhonov's Contribution to the Debate on the Peasant at the Turn of the Century; M.Perrie - Restructuring the Russian Petroleum Industry in the 1890s: Government Policy and Market Forces; J.P.McKay - British Merchant Houses in Russia before 1914; S.Thompstone - Defence Industries in Tsarist Russia, 1908-1913: Production, Employment and Military Procurement; P.Gatrell - 1917 in the Rear Garrisons; H.White - Lenin and Agrarian Economics in 1917; R.Service - Land Revolution and Land Reform: the Case of the Central Black Earth Region, 1917-24; J.Channon - Some Thoughts on the End of NEP; A.Nove - Soviet Defence Industries during the First Five-Year Plan; R.W.Davies - Bibliography of Olga Crisp's Publications - Index
