Mechanisms for managing industrialization: the experience of the Russian industrial revolution of the 19 th century

At the moment, Russian Federation is going through the stage of the third industrialization. The previous two stages, that took place in the imperial period of the 19th century and in the Soviet period of the first half of the 20th century, demonstrated a high degree of efficiency. The experience accumulated during these periods remains relevant for modern representatives of the industrial sector and government industry regulation agencies. There is a vast number of studies, both Soviet and contemporary, that are devoted to the Soviet stage of industrialization. At the same time, the problems of the industrialization of the pre-revolutionary period, especially those of the initial stage dating back to the reign of Alexander I and Nicholas I, are studied to a much lesser extent. It should be noted that when studying the pre-revolutionary industrialization, Soviet authors primarily focused on analyzing global macroeconomic processes, rather than management mechanisms and specific management methods. Thus, the history of the first industrialization of Russia contains a completed “management case†which has not been properly analyzed from the point of view of management, not economic history. Of particular value to this “case†is the possibility of analyzing the “survivability†, the feasibility of certain approaches to management on our national basis, in our socio-cultural conditions. To solve the tasks of introducing this “management case†into the scientific circulation, the author has analized the management structures and mechanisms that ensured successful implementation of the industrial revolution (the early stage of industrialization) on the territory of the Russian Empire in the first half of the 19th century.