Russian Corporate Capitalism From Peter the Great to Perestroika

Contents......Page 12
1 Introduction: The Challenges of Russian Business History......Page 16
The Population Ecology of Russian Corporations......Page 29
Railroads and Banks......Page 43
The Formation and Survival of Corporations in Ten Large Cities......Page 50
3 Corporate Entrepreneurs and Managers, 1821–1914......Page 63
Patterns of Entrepreneurship......Page 64
Corporate Managers in 1905 and 1914......Page 78
Russian Entrepreneurship in Comparative Perspective......Page 91
4 Perestroika and the Failure of Soviet Capitalism, 1985–1990......Page 97
Cooperatives and the Culture of Communal Envy......Page 98
Corporations and Exchanges......Page 113
5 Capitalism and Xenophobia in Russia......Page 128
Radical and Reactionary Critiques of Capitalism under the Tsarist Regime......Page 129
Slavophile Capitalism......Page 139
War and Revolution: The Origins of Economic Xenophobia in Soviet Ideology......Page 151
6 Conclusion: Varieties of Russian Capitalism......Page 164
Appendix A: The RUSCORP Database......Page 186
Appendix B: Basic Capital as an Indicator of Corporate Size......Page 188
Appendix C: Tables......Page 193
Appendix D: Figures......Page 203
Notes......Page 214
Works Cited......Page 244
B......Page 264
D......Page 265
H......Page 266
L......Page 267
N......Page 268
R......Page 269
S......Page 270
V......Page 271
Z......Page 272