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Continuity in Economic Activity and Policy during the Post-Petrine Period in Russia

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  • Kahan, Arcadius

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To discuss economic activity in Russia of the eighteenth century is to deal with an economic and social order that antedates the age of industrialization. Industrial activity in Russia during the eighteenth century was carried on within the political framework of an autocratic state, with ill-defined norms of legal behavior, and against the background of a serf agriculture which reached its apogee during this very period. The state of the industrial arts was low in comparison with western European standards, and the use of waterpower as a motive force in manufactories was introduced in Russia by foreign entrepreneurs only in the seventeenth century. Against this background, the efforts by Peter the Great (reigned 1682–1725) to modernize Russia appear genuinely heroic. The demands of his policy forced the government to engage directly in a vast program of establishing new industries, of converting small handicraft workshops into large-scale manufactories, and of encouraging private entrepreneurs to follow the government's example.

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  • Kahan, Arcadius, 1965. "Continuity in Economic Activity and Policy during the Post-Petrine Period in Russia," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 25(1), pages 61-85, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:25:y:1965:i:01:p:61-85_06
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    1. Scheltjens, Werner, 2008. "The impact of a new port on the organization of maritime shipping: an attempt to generalize the results of a case-study on the foundation of St. Petersburg and its influence on Dutch maritime shipping," MPRA Paper 9054, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 20 Apr 2008.

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