Historical and economics excursus:genesis of monopoly and competition in the Russian economy

The paper identifies and briefly describes the seven main stages of formation and evolution of the Russian monopoly in the late 19th century to the present. Presents the author's opinion about the peculiarities of each stage, the characteristic of the unique and distinctive features of the Russian monopoly, as in the tsarist period and centralized bureaucratic control system. Special attention is paid to the formation of highly concentrated Russian economy tsarist period and the wide dissemination of the syndicates. It is shown that in spite of the heterogeneity of economic structures of the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly in the economic structure of tsarist Russia were the basis on which later, in a socialist economic system, formed monopoly economy of Soviet Russia of the twentieth century, built according to the «national economy - one single factory. Defined special types of monopolies formed in different historical conditions of economic development of Russia.