Covering two hundred years of corporate capitalism in Russia, from the tzarist period through Perestroika and into the present, this work demonstrates the historical obstacles that have confronted Russian corporate entrepreneurs and the continuity of Russian attitudes toward corporate capitalism. A provocative final chapter considers the implications of the weak corporate heritage for the future of Russian capitalism.
Author(s): Thomas C. Owen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 1995
Language: English
Pages: 272
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
