Entrepreneurship in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union / / ed. by Fred V. Carstensen, Gregory Guroff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Anan\x27ich, Boris V.,; Armstrong, John A.,; Baron, Samuel Η.,; Berliner, Joseph S.,; Black, Cyril Ε.,; Blackwell, William,; Carstensen, Fred V.,; Cocks, Paul,; Granick, David,; Grossman, Gregory,; Guroff, Gregory,; Kahan, Arcadius,; Laird, Betty A.,; Laird, Roy D.,; Owen, Thomas C.,; Roosa, Ruth Amende,
• HerausgeberIn: Carstensen, Fred V.,; Guroff, Gregory,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1983
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 674
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

This multidisciplinary study of entrepreneurship in Russian society from the sixteenth to the twentieth century demonstrates the crucial influence of central government on economic initiative.Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- I. Russian and Soviet Entrepreneursbip in a Comparative Context -- The Tsarist Period -- II. The Russian Entrepreneur in the Tsarist Period: An Overview -- III. Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship In Sixteenth!Seventeenth- Century Russia -- IV. Enterpreneurship and the Structure of Enterprise in Russia, 1800-1880 -- V. Socializing for Modernization in a Multiethnic Elite -- VI. Notes on Jewish Entrepreneursbip in Tsarist Russia -- VII. The Economic Policy of the Tsarist Government and Enterprise in Russia from the End of the Nineteenth through the Beginning of the Twentieth Century -- VIII. Foreign Participation in Russian Economic Life: Notes on British Enterprise, 1865-1914 -- IX. Russian Industrialists during World War I: The Interaction of Economics and Politics -- The Soviet Period -- X. Entrepreneurship in the Soviet Period: An Overview -- XI. The Red-Expert Debate: Continuities in the State- Entrepreneur Tension -- XII. Institutional Innovation and Economic Management: The Soviet Incentive System, 1921 to the Present -- XIII. The Soviet Farm Manager as an Entrepreneur -- XIV. The Party as Manager and Entrepreneur -- XV. Organizing for Technological Innovation in the 1980s -- XVI. Economic Innovation in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union: Observations -- The Contributors -- Index