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Merchant Moscow - Images of Russia's Vanished Bourgeoisie (Hardcover)
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Merchant Moscow - Images of Russia's Vanished Bourgeoisie (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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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. The fourteen contributing historians
selected and ordered photographs that best illustrate their
specialized knowledge of the period. They have framed their topics
in a variety of ways. Some have chosen to pursue traditional
topics, such as collective biography, institutional history, or the
history of business practices. Others have approached the
photographs in more experimental ways, emphasizing the semiotics of
dress, discourses of identity, or the history of daily life.
Together they offer fresh perspectives on the successes and
failures of Russia's first experiment with entrepreneurial
capitalism. Originally published in 1998. 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.
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