Defense Contracts as a Factor of Intensification of the Financial Capital Formation Process on the Eve and During World War I (on the Example of the Joint-Stock Company of Bryansk Factory and the Russo-Asiatic Bank)
Journal: Journal of Economic History and History of Economics
Year: 2019

This article discusses the role of defense contracts as a factor of intensification of the financial capital formation process in Russia on the eve and during World War I. The author made an attempt to analyze how the activities of private enterprises carried out for the Ministry of War influenced their merging with commercial banks on the example of the Joint-Stock Company of Bryansk Factory and the Russo-Asiatic Bank. The switch of leading Russian metal-working and metallurgical corporations t