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Merchant Moscow: Images of Russia's Vanished Bourgeoisie
By (Author) James L. West
Edited by Iurii A. Petrov
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
European history
305.5540947
Paperback
346
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
482g
With the collapse of the Soviet system, the long-neglected history of the early capitalists is being recovered and rewritten. Once regarded as the "losers" in the Russian Revolution, these merchants can now be seen as early pioneers in Russia's transformation to a free market economy. This book is the first joint Russian-American collaborative proj