An article is included about Russian trade in the Ottoman Empire during the 19th century/ Εμπεριέχεται άρθρο για το ρωσικό εμπόριο στην Οθωμανική αυτοκρατορία κατά το 19ο αιώνα.

The present volume covers the entire span of the country's history, from ancient times to the post-communist present. It examine all aspects of Russia's history--political, international, military, economic, social, and cultural-- reflecting recent research and new trends in scholarly interpretation. New chapters on politics, society, and culture since 1991 explore Russia's complex experience after communism.

Αυτό το βιβλίο αναλύει τη διαδικασία μέσα από την οποία η Ρωσία εξελίχθηκε σε καπιταλιστική οικονομία και εκκίνησε ένα τεράστιο πλάνο εκβιομηχάνισης δίχως την ανάδυση μιας ώριμης αστικής τάξης. Το βασικό συμπέρασμα που προκύπτει είναι ότι η μοίρα των Ρώσων εμπόρων και βιομηχάνων ήταν αποτέλεσμα του ευρύτερου κοινωνικού κατακερματισμού της Ρωσίας την παραμονή του Α΄Παγκοσμίου πολέμου./This book analyzes how Russia developed into a capitalist economy and launched a major industrialization without giving rise to a mature bourgeoisie. The main conclusion that emerges is that the fate of the Russian merchants and industrialists was part of a larger social fragmentation in Russia on the eve of World War I.

Russia's southern frontier in the seventeenth century was continuously menaced by the nomadic Tatars who inhabited the open steppe grasslands. In this situation the Russian government attempted to harness all the frontier's sources to the cause of defence by founding a series of military towns which could control and direct the process of settlement. Government control, however, did not extend to the widespread illegal migration and settlement of runaway serfs. In a later period, as the Tatar threat subsided and colonization continued, the importance of most of the towns diminished and a system of secondary central places arose as trade expanded. But the oldest towns retained their importance in this changing social and economic situation, becoming higher-order central places for long-distance trade and, increasingly, centres for agricultural processing.
Urbanism and economic development in a pre-industrial context: the case of southern Russia. 

This study will focus on the confluence of Russian railroad development and its role in Russia‟s imperial intersections. It will analyze the construction of Russian railways as a locus point of imperial intersections between France and the Russian Empire and illustrate the profundity they can have. The Russian railways serve as a locus point for Russian industrialization, finance, international relations, military preparedness, top level government decision making with French military planning, security, financial interests, and international prestige. This case study is an attempt to illustrate the extent to which international relations between empires and their domestic policies were interconnected by the last half of the nineteenth century up until the outbreak of the First World War.

The article is a commercial and geographic reference to the cities-ports of the Black Sea/ Το άρθρο αποτελεί εμπορική και γεωγραφική αναφορά στις πόλεις-λιμάνια της Μαύρης θάλασσας. 

The present volume examines the history of female entrepreneurship in the Russian Empire during nineteenth-century industrial development. According to Russian law, women enjoyed the same property rights as men, so the principle of separate personal property in marriage made it possible for a woman to be independent in business matters. This study uses statistical information on female entrepreneurs from 1814 to 1900, and sociologically analyzes the data on a wide range of enterprises, from cottage industries to large-scale manufacturing operations. It also includes lively case histories which reveal the background to a number of family fortunes including instances of bankruptcy and property litigations between close family members.

This volume presents first-time translations in English of the fundamental research of two eminent Soviet economic historians, P.I. Lyashchenko and A.M. Anfimov. The former was one of the most distinguished scholars of his time, and his History of the Russian National Economy is a classic. A.M. Anfimov has for long been one of the most redoubtable scholars of the Institute of History of the Soviet/Russian Academy of Sciences. "The essays deal with the grain trade and commercial agriculture in late Imperial Russia, substantially going against the trend of what is said about these subjects both in the USSR and in Euro-American literature. In the case of Imperial Russia's involvement in the international grain market, P.I. Lyashchenko indicates the experience was highly problematic. In the case of large scale capitalist agriculture in Russia of the same time, A.M. Anfimov demonstrates why it acted as a brake on improvements in production.

The text describes the course of commercial products of the cities of the Black Sea to the cities of Persia and India/ Το κείμενο περιγράφει την πορεία των εμπορικών προιόντων από τις πόλεις της Μαύρης θάλασσας προς τις πόλεις της Περσίας και της Ινδίας.

Russia’s Age of Serfdom 1649-1861 offers a broad interpretive history of the Russian Empire from the time of serfdom’s codification until its abolition following the Crimean War.
It considers the institution of serfdom, official social categories, and Russia’s development as a country of peasants ruled by nobles, military commanders, and civil servants and the reality of absolute monarchy in Russia, with special emphasis on the mobilization of human and material resources, the search for regular government, and the persistence of personal-moral forms of authority.