Merchant Moscow - Images Of Russia's Vanished Bourgeoisie
Contributors: James L. West (Editor); Iurii A. Petrov (Editor)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: January 12, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780691012490
Subjects: Economic history; Entrepreneurship; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; European history: from c 1900 -; Social conditions; c 1800 to c 1900; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Business History; Social Situations And Conditions; Portraits; Business & Economics; History - General History; History: World; Russia; General; Anthropology - Cultural; European History; History / Russia (pre- & post-Soviet Union); Moscow (Russia); Russia (Federation); 19th century; Businesspeople; History; Moscow
First sentence: Photographs of the central business district in Moscow under the last tsar suggest, at first glance, that European capitalist institutions-industrial corporations, banks, department stores, and commodity and stock exchanges-had become firmly rooted in the urban landscape.