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Hillis, Faith C., Between empire and nation: Urban politics, community, and violence in Kiev, 1863-1907, Yale University, 2009

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This article outlines the city of Kiev based on political imperatives, economic and social riots that occurred during the 19th century/ Το άρθρο σκιαγραφεί την πόλη του Κιέβου με βάση τις πολιτικές επιταγές, την οικονομία αλλά και τις κοινωνικές εξεγέρσεις που σημειώθηκαν το 19ο αιών.

Hoffman, David L. - Kotsonis, Yanni, Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge, Practices, Palgrave Macmillan, London 2000

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The present volume places Imperial and Soviet Russia in a European context. Russia shared in a larger European modernity marked by increased overlap and sometimes merger of realms that had previously been treated as discrete entities: the social and the political, state and society, government and economy, and private and public. These were attributes of Soviet dictatorship, but their origins can be located in a larger European context and in the emergence of modern forms of government in Imperial Russia/ Το βιβλίο αναλύει όλους τους παράγοντες που οδήγησαν στον εκσυγχρονισμό της ρωσικής κοινωνίας κατά το 19ο αιώνα. 

Kahan, Arcadius, Russian economic history: the nineteenth century, University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1989

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Upon the foundation of his unique experience and education, the late Arcadius Kahan (1920-1982) built a substantial body of scholarship on all aspects of the tsarist economy. Yet some of his important contribution might well have been dissipated were it not for this collection, since many of these essays were often available only in isolated, obscure sources. This posthumous volume makes readily available for the first time ten of Kahan's essays, nine previously published in English and one in German, which serve to integrate his carefully developed picture of nineteenth-century Russian economic history. 

King, Charles, The Ghost of Freedom. A History of the Caucasus, Oxford University Press, New York 2008

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The Caucasus Mountains rise at the intersection of Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. A land of astonishing natural beauty and a dizzying array of ancient cultures, the Caucasus for most of the twentieth century lay inside the Soviet Union, before movements of national liberation created newly independent countries and sparked wars in Chechnya, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. The present volume recounts how tsars, highlanders, revolutionaries, and adventurers contributed to the fascinating history of this borderland, from the origins of modern disputes to debates over oil from the Caspian Sea and its impact on world markets.

Kingston-Mann, Esther, In search of the true west. Culture, economics, and problems of Russian Development, Princeton University Press, New Jersey 1999

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This ground-breaking work documents Russian efforts to appropriate Western solutions to the problem of economic backwardness since the time of Catherine the Great. Entangled then as now with issues of cultural borrowing, educated Russians searched for Western nations, ideas, and social groups that embodied universal economic truths applicable to their own country. The present volume describes Russian Westernization--which emphasized German as well as Anglo-U.S. economics--while she raises important questions about core values of Western culture and how cultural values and priorities are determined.

Kocho-Williams, Alastair, The Twentieth Century Russia Reader, Routledge, London, New York 2012  

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O παρών τόμος αφορά τη ρώσικη ιστορία κατά τη διάρκεια του 20ου αιώνα. Περιέχει βασικά άρθρα για την ιστορία και την πολιτική της περιόδου από την περίοδο του Τσάρου, στη Ρώσικη Επανάσταση, τη Σοβιετική Ένωση και τον Δεύτερο Παγκόσμιο πόλεμο έως και τη μετασοβιετική περίοδο./ The present volume is considering Russian history across this turbulent period of the 20th century. It contains key articles on history and politics from across the period; from the last Tsar, the Russian Revolution, the Soviet Union and World War Two, right up to the post-Soviet period.


Lees, Andrew - Lees-Hollen, Lynn, Cities and the making of modern Europe, 1750–1914, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007

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This book is a major survey of urbanization and the making of modern Europe from the mid-eighteenth century to the First World War. During these years Europe experienced startling rates of urbanization, with the populations of numerous cities growing by 1000 percent or more. This book explores the causes, course and consequences of this urban explosion. The authors link urban growth to industrialization, migration, and the growth of colonial empires. They show how the social, political, and intellectual challenges cities posed were met by urban reformers; how cities enriched cultural life; and how European cities influenced and were influenced by colonial cities. 

Lincoln W. Bruce, The Great Reforms. Autocracy, Bureaucracy, and the Politics of Chance in Imperial Russia, Northern Illinois University Press, Dekalb 1990.

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The Great Reforms of the 1860s marked the broadest attempt at social and economic renovation to occur in Russia between the death of Peter the Great in 1725 and the Revolution of 1905. In just more than a decade, imperial reform acts freed Russia's serfs, restructured her courts, established institutions of local self-government in parts of the empire, altered the constraints that censorship imposed on the press, and transformed Russia's vast serf armed forces into a citizen army in which men from all classes bore equal responsibility for military service. This invaluable study explains why the legislation assumed the shape that it did and estimates what the Great Reforms ultimately accomplished. 

Martin, Janet, Medieval Russia, 980-1584, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1993

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This volume is a concise narrative of the history of Russia from the reign of Vladimir I the Saint, through to the reign of Ivan IV the Terrible. It emphasizes the dynamics of Russia's political evolution from the loose federation of principalities known as Kievan Rus' through the era of Mongol domination to the development of the Muscovite state. The analyses of the ruling dynasty, of economic influences on political development, and the explorations of society, foreign relations, religion, and culture provide a basis for understanding the transformations of the lands of Rus'.

Mazis, John, A. The Greek Benevolent Association of Odessa (1871-1917). Private Charity and Diaspora Leadership in late Imperial Russia, Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota, 1998

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Odessa  
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The thesis analyzes the Greek community of Odessa and it investigates its role in development of the Russian economy/ Η εργασία αναφέρεται στην ελληνική παροικία της Οδησσού και ερευνά το ρόλο της στην ανάπτυξη της ρωσικής οικονομίας.

Mc Kay, John, Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913, Chicago University Press, Chicago 1970

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Foreign investment increased from 17 percent of the capital of industrial corporations in Imperial Russia in 1880 to 47 percent in 1914, coinciding with the rapid development of Russian industrialization before World War I. The present study, based largely on intensive research in numerous archives and utilizing many previously unexplored private business records, is the first detailed analysis of the impact of foreign enterprise on Russian industry during this period. 

McCabe, Ina Baghdiantz - Harlaftis, Gelina - Minoglou, Ioanna (eds), Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks. Five Centuries of History, Oxford: Berg Publications, 2005

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Miller, Michael B., Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth Century History, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Urban Landscape - Geography  Shipping  Marine Environment - Harbour Systems  Economy and Infrastructure  Administration  
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The present volume offers a new framework for understanding globalization over the past century. Through a detailed analysis of ports, shipping, and trading companies whose networks spanned the world, this book shows how a European maritime infrastructure made modern production and consumer societies possible. The study argues that the combination of overseas connections and close ties to home ports contributed to globalization. It also explains how the ability to manage merchant shipping's complex logistics was central to the outcome of both world wars and chronicles transformations in hierarchies, culture, identities, and port city space, all of which produced a new and different maritime world by the end of the century.

Mollenkopf, John Hull, Power, culture, and place: essays on New York City, Russell Sage Foundation, New York 1988

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The essays in this volume explore economic growth and change and the social conflicts that accompanied them in the dynamic context of New York city. Other papers suggest how popular culture, public space, and street life served as sources of order amidst conflict and disorder. Essays on politics and pluralism offer further reflections on how social tensions are harnessed in the framework of political participation. By examining the intersection of economics, culture, and politics in a shared spatial context, these multidisciplinary essays not only illuminate the City's fascinating and complex development.

 

. Other papers suggest how popular culture, public space, and street life served as sources of order amidst conflict and disorder. Essays on politics and pluralism offer further reflections on how social tensions are harnessed in the framework of political participation. By examining the intersection of economics, culture, and politics in a shared spatial context, these multidisciplinary essays not only illuminate the City's fascinating and complex development, but also highlight the significance of a sense of "place" for social research.

 

Focusing on three historical transformations—the mercantile, industrial, and postindustrial—several contributors

Morozan, V.V., The operation of the Azov-Don Commercial Bank in the south of Russia at the end of the XIX century, St. Petersburg State Agrarian University

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Taganrog  Sevastopol  Rostov on Don  Mariupol  Kerch  Evpatoria  Berdyansk  
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The book describes the rise of the commercial banking system of the areas of Azov in southern Russia/ Το βιβλίο περιγράφει την άνοδο του εμπορικοτραπεζικού συστήματος από τις περιοχές της Αζοφικής στη νότια Ρωσία.

Nolde, Baron Boris E., Russia in the Economic War, Yale University Press, New Haven 1928

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Oliphant, Laurence, The Russian shores of the Black Sea in the autumn of 1852 with a voyage down the Volga, and a tour through the country of the Don Cossacks, William Blackwood and Sons, London 1854

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This book is a narrative of the journey Oliver Oliphant, author of travel diaries and novels, traveller, correspondent for The Times during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1) and Secretary to British Diplomat Lord Elgin, made to Russia as a young man, with his friend Oswald Smith. From the splendour of mid-nineteenth-century St Petersburg, to the annexation of the Crimea, and the international consequences of Russian foreign policy for Europe, this illustrated book is also full of witty anecdotes and captivating descriptions. 

Oscanyan, C., Pleasure trip to the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. A party of gentlemen who, with their families, desire to visit the east and the shores of the Mediterranean, will charter a first-class steamer to start on the 12th of May, 1866, for a voyage of ten months ...[New York: s.n., 1866]

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Theodosia  Taganrog  Rostov on Don  Odessa  Novorossiysk  Mariupol  Kherson  Kerch  Evpatoria  Berdyansk  
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Cities catalogue/ Κατάλογος πόλεων 

Owen, Thomas C., RUSCORP: A Database of Corporations in the Russian Empire, 1700-1914, Louisiana State University, 2002

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The RUSCORP database is a body of machine-readable information illuminating the rise of capitalist institutions in tsarist Russia. Specifically, it presents profiles of all for-profit corporations founded in the Russian Empire (except in the Grand Duchy of Finland) from the time of Peter the Great to the eve of World War I. RUSCORP describes the initial state of these companies at the time of their incorporation as well as their condition in 1847, 1869, 1874, 1892, 1905, and 1914.

Owen, Thomas C., Russian Corporate Capitalism. from Peter the Great to Perestroika, Oxford University Press, New York 1995

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The present volume focuses on the large entreprises founded in the Russian Empire from the 18th to the 20th century. The analysis focuses on companies as leagl entities, mostly involved in industry spread all over the Russian Empire. Several other aspects of these firms are recorded and treated statistically are the location, the size of investment, the industrial sector and the social status and ethnicity of the firms managers. 

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