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Harvard Studies in Business History 44

Dilemmas of Russian Capitalism

Fedor Chizhov and Corporate Enterprise in the Railroad Age

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$82.50 • £71.95 • €75.95

ISBN 9780674015494

Publication Date: 02/28/2005

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292 pages

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9 halftones, 1 map, 3 tables

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  • Preface
  • Author’s Note
  • Introduction: Biography and Business History
  • 1. The Search for a Vocation
    • From Mathematics to Romantic Nationalism
    • Arrest and Internal Exile
    • Personality and Entrepreneurship
  • 2. Economic Nationalism in Theory
    • Economic Journalism in the Era of the Great Reforms
    • Corporate Capitalism and Railroads
    • Tariff Protection for Domestic Industries: German Theories and Russian Realities
    • The Origins of Slavophile Capitalism
  • 3. Economic Nationalism in Practice
    • The Trinity Railroad
    • The First Banks in Moscow
    • The Moscow-Kursk Railroad
    • The Archangel-Murmansk Steamship Company
  • 4. Chizhov’s Legacy
    • Limits to Success
    • Merchants and Gentry as Corporate Entrepreneurs
    • The Political Context: Military-Autocratic Rule
    • Unresolved Dilemmas
  • Conclusion: The Death of Fedor Vasilievich
  • Notes
  • Bibliographical Essay
  • Index

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