ECONOMIC HISTORY. YEARBOOK. 2002

Contents

Editorial notes (C. 3-5.)

Russian Economic History: Common Aspects

• V.I.Bovykin. Economic Policy of Tarist government and Russian Industrial Development, 1861-1900. (P. 9-32.)

Financial and Banking History

• A.V.Bugrov. The State Bank and Stock Exchange Syndicates in Russia, 1899-1917. (P. 35-46.)
• W. Sartor. St. Petersburg as International Business Center in the XIXth century. (Trans. from German - S.K.Lebedev.) (C. 47-63.)

Business History

• S.Thompstone. Russian Participation in International Commerce before 1914. (Trans. from English - Y.A.Petrov.) (P. 67-91.)
• M.L.Gavlin. The Role of Wine Tax-Farming System in the Forming of Large Capitals in Russia in XIXth century (P. 92-110.)
• O.Y.Khomutova. Merchant Class of Kaluga in the first half of the XIXth century: The Sources of Formation and the Structure of Trade Operations (P. 111-154.)
• I.P.Smirnov. The case of insolvent M.S.Kuznetsov, 1876-1881 (the episode of "the porcelain king" biography). (P. 155-187.)

Soviet Economy

• B.M.Shpotov. Businessmen and Bureaucrats: American Technical Assistance in the Construction of the Nizhny Novgorod Automobile Factory, 1929-1931. (P. 191-232.)
• E.A.Osokina. Antikvariat (Art exports during Soviet industrialization). (P. 233-268.)
• L.P.Rasskazov. The Role of GULAG in Pre-war Five-year Plans (P. 269-319.)
• A.V.Shalak. The Food Supply Problem and the Ways of its Overcoming in Eastern Siberia in 1940s (P. 320-342.)

Russian Tax System

• M.K.Shatsillo. The Evolution of the Russian Tax System in the XIXth century (P. 345-383.)
• Y.A.Petrov. Taxes and Taxpayers in Russia in the beginning of the XXth century (P. 384-418.)

Agrarian History

• A.P.Korelin. The Rise of Cooperative System: Ascent s and Descents (1860s - the midst of 1890s). (P. 421-454.)
• I.V.Rouzhitskaia. Egor Frantsevich Cancrin and the Problem of Serfs in Russia. (P. 455-481.)
• Y.A.Sviatets. Small-Sowing Farms: Low-Powered or Nonoptimal?(Structural analysis of social and economic processes of the Ukrainian rural area in the beginning of the New Economic Policy). (P. 482-509.)

Demographic Processes and Economic Development

• V.V.Kanishchev. Economy, demography and ecology during the modernization of agrarian society (Tambov region in the XIXth century and at the beginning of the XXth century). (P. 513-530.)

Ancient and Medieval Economic History

• I.A.Gvozdeva. The Rural Roads as the Structural Element of the Roman Organization of Land Exploitation. (P. 533-560.) English. Italian.
• A.L.Ponomarev. The Treasures, Contracts, Reparations - Statistics of Medieval Incomes. (P. 561-579.)

Economic History of Foreign Countries

• A.Y.Salomatin. The US Banking Policy and Its Results: The First 100 Years of Experiments. (P. 583-595.)
• S.V.Roginsky. The petroleum sector of Norway. Periods of development and state adjustment. 1962-2000. (P. 596-608.)

The Controversy of Contemporary Economic History

• B.V.Anan'ich. Notes on Boris Mironov's article "Who Paid for Industrialization? S.Witte's Economic Policies and the Well-being of the Population in 1890-1905 on the Anthropometrical Data" (Economic History. Yearbook. 2001. P. 418-427). (P. 611-613.)