Russian Capitalism. Exceptionalism versus Global Labour-Intensive Path, 1700-1914

Alessandro Stanziani (1)

1 CRH (UMR 8558 CNRS / EHESS) - Centre de Recherches Historiques (CRH) _ Unité Mixte de Recherches (UMR 8558 CNRS / EHESS)

After reviewing the historiography of the Russian economic path, this chapter discusses the period running from the early eighteenth century to the abolition of serfdom (1861) and World War I; it argues that Russian economic dynamics were more important than is usually held in terms of rate of growth, that they were labour-intensive and mostly based on modernizing peasants and landlords. The problem was that these solutions were eventually compatible with the first, but not the second industrial revolution.

Mots clés: nineteenth century; eighteenth century; economic history; Russia; coercion; backwardness; labour intensification; proto-industry; serfdom

Domaines: Economies et finances

Alessandro Stanziani. Russian Capitalism. Exceptionalism versus Global Labour-Intensive Path, 1700-1914. Kaveh Yazdani; Dilip Menon. Capitalisms. Towards a Global History, Oxford University Press, pp.95-127, 2020, 9780199499717. ⟨10.1093/oso/9780199499717.003.0004⟩. ⟨hal-02956161⟩