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This paper studies the impact of inequality in capital and land distribution on the pace of industrialization, thereby explaining the role of wealth inequality in the Great Divergence phenomenon. We build a two-sector unified growth model, in which the outcome of public policy contest between...
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Education in early modern Russia has been traditionally described as imported from the West; secular; imposed by the … of education in that period. The last two sections seek to place the early modern education in Russia in the Western … innovative reconfiguring of educational forms; and to discuss the role of early modern Russia as a pioneer, in some sense, of …
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This article studies the evolution of housing rents in St. Petersburg between 1880 and 1917, covering an eventful period of Russian and world history. We collect and digitize over 5,000 rental advertisements from a local newspaper, which we use together with geo-coded addresses and detailed...
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Studies of interconnections between social, technological, economic and cultural forces belong to the trend of modernisation studies in the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th century. Modernisation implies the establishment and growth of institutions and infrastructures that are...
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each other. But, how had the notion of luxury been conceptualizing outside of the European Roman world? Russia is an … of luxury. Secondly, starting from Petrine time Russia got more acquainted with the European political economy …
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The article deals with the notion "undergoverness" in the context of the 18th century Russia. It was an attempt to get …
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The Russian hunters used to kill animals in the Arctic long before the 18th c. However, the Petrine modernization has changed their life strongly. The Government has put the new goals in order to make the Russian blubber industry some kind of a driving force for the Europeanization of the...
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This article uses the records of monastic account books to assess the level of prices in Russia in the second half of … financial reforms. The available data shows the prices did not change synchronically in Russia and Europe. Our assumption …, therefore, is that Russia stood apart from the price revolution of Western Europe in the seventeenth century …
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This paper reconstructs the origins and the meaning of the “Most Illustrious and Incomparable Order of Antisobres,” that was to be instituted in 1728 in St Petersburg by Duke de Liria, the Spanish ambassador. While this unusual fraternal society might have never taken off the ground and...
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This article explores how Bolshevik/Soviet authorities took on and adapted the Russian imperial topography of power i.e. the system of special structures that intended to convey state ideology (monuments to tsars and statesmen, emperors' residences with their various ceremonial spaces,...
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