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Titel
Dilemmas of Russian Capitalism : Fedor Chizhov and Corporate Enterprise in the Railroad Age
Ist Teil von
  • Harvard Studies in Business History
Ort / Verlag
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
[2022]
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Beschreibungen/Notizen
  • Fedor Chizhov built the first railroad owned entirely by Russian stockholders, created Moscow's first bank and mutual credit society, and launched the first profitable steamship line based in Archangel. In this valuable book, Thomas Owen vividly illuminates the life and world of this seminal figure in early Russian capitalism. Chizhov condemned European capitalism as detrimental to the ideal of community and the well-being of workers and peasants. In his strategy of economic nationalism, Chizhov sought to motivate merchants to undertake new forms of corporate enterprise without undermining ethnic Russian culture. He faced numerous obstacles, from the lack of domestic investment capital to the shortage of enlightened entrepreneurial talent. But he reserved his harshest criticism for the tsarist ministers, whose incompetence and prejudice against private entrepreneurship proved his greatest hindrance. Richly documented from Chizhov's detailed diary, this work offers an insightful exploration of the institutional impediments to capitalism and the rule of law that plagued the tsarist empire and continue to bedevil post-Soviet Russia
Sprache
Englisch
Identifikatoren
ISBN: 9780674276642
Titel-ID: 99371438678106441
Format
1 online resource (292 p.)
Schlagworte
HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union