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.
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