Explores the impact of the 1921 reversal of Soviet policy that permitted primate markets only months after banning them. Shows how it was the beginning of the New Economic Policy of the 1920s, which remains memorable for its blend of diverse economic structures, competing social groups, fervent debates, and vibrant cultural expressions. Examines how the Soviet leadership alternatively and simultaneously nurtured and discouraged the markets, weighing them down with taxes and denying them loans and merchandise to reduce their importance before they could be totally eliminated. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Merchants and Markets in Revolutionary Russia, 1917-30 (Studies in Russian and East European History and Society)

Arup Banerji

Business & Money

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This text explores the history of private internal trade in the USSR during the NEP of the 1920s. Private traders operated in a politically hostile but economically promising environment. Their contribution to post-war reconstruction was a crucial one. An exhaustive portrayal of the markets and dimensions of private trade is contrasted with the felt anxieties of Bolsheviks concerning traders' destabilising intentions and abilities. Retrospectively, many of these apprehensions were misplaced.

Merchants and Markets in Revolutionary Russia, 1917-30

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

The history of the Soviet Union has been charted in several studies over the decades. However, earlier examinations have failed to draw attention to the political and academic environment within which these histories were composed. Identifying the significant hallmarks of the production of Soviet history by Soviet as well as Western historians, this book attempts to fill this gap. It shows how the Russian Revolution of 1917 triggered a shift in official policy towards historians and the publication of history textbooks for schools and surveys the rich body of writing the Russian Revolution generated as well as the divergent approaches to the history of the period. The conditions for research in Soviet archives are described as an aspect of official monitoring of history writing, which continues to this day.

Writing History in the Soviet Union: Making the Past Work

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Social Science Press

<p>This book is a study of commercial relations between north India, the Uzbek Khanate of Bukhara and Russia between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Studies of India s foreign trade have tended to overlook commercial flows passing through the north-western frontier, destined for Afghanistan, Central Asia and Russia. This volume attempts to redress this imbalance. It does this by initially identifying the geographical and political factors that complicated the trade as well as afforded merely tentative estimates of its volumes. In the chapters that follow, the economic power of Sindhi bankers from Shikarpur over most of south Central Asia is explained and the reliance upon nomad Afghan horse traders to transport textiles, spices, bullion, gems and drugs over the Himalayas detailed. The existence of a substantial body of British military intelligence is used to buttress the commercial fortunes of the principal trade marts of Multan and Shikarpur in the nineteenth century. Finally, the book seeks to provide a historical context to established scholarship on Indo-Russian trade in the twentieth century by probing into its origins from the seventeenth century.</p>

Old Routes North Indian Nomads and Bankers in Afghan, Uzbek and Russian Lands

Three Essays Collectives

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Merchants and Markets in Revolutionary Russia, 1917-30 (Studies in Russian and East European History and Society)

Merchants and Markets in Revolutionary Russia, 1917-30

Writing History in the Soviet Union: Making the Past Work

Old Routes North Indian Nomads and Bankers in Afghan, Uzbek and Russian Lands