Merchant Moscow
Subtitle: images of Russia's vanished bourgeoisie
By: edited by James L. West and Iurii A. Petrov.
Contributors: West, James L., 1944-; Petrov, I͡U︡. A. 1955-
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Businesspeople -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- Portraits.; Businesspeople -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- History -- 19th century.; Moscow (Russia) -- Social conditions.; Moscow (Russia) -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century.
Description: 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 project on the history of Russian entrepreneurship. Merchant Moscow puts a human face on early Russian capitalism.

It presents thematic groupings of historic photographs paired with commentaries by contemporary Russian and American historians. The pictures provide a stunning, wide-ranging visual portrait of Imperial Russia's most influential entrepreneurial elite, the Moscow merchantry, while the accompanying articles interpret the photographs and place them in the larger cultural context of prerevolutionary Russia.

Here is a surprising new view of the bourgeoisie during the Silver Age, revealed for the first time in this fascinating volume.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-180) and index.