Pioneers for profit : foreign entrepreneurship and Russian industrialization, 1885-1913 / John P. McKay
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1970. First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #407270
ISBN: 0226559920
Physical description: xiii, 442 pages : maps; 22 cm. Contents: I: Introduction -- I, Sec. 2: Enterprises: Sources and Types -- I, Sec. 3: The Basic Strategy -- I, Sec. 4: Advanced Technology in Steel and Coal -- I, Sec. 5: Patterns of Management -- I, Sec. 6: The Mobilization of Capital -- I, Sec. 7: The Problem of Labor -- I, Sec. 8: Relations with State and Society -- II, Sec. 1: A Pioneering Innovator: The John Cockerill Company in Southern Russia, 1885-1905 -- II, Sec. 2: Boom-Time Speculation: The Rykovskii Coal Company -- II, Sec. 3: The Huta-Bankova Steel Company and the Bonnardel Group -- II, Sec 4: Toward Passive Investment: The Banque De L'Union Parisienne and the Bogatyr Rubber Company, 1910-1914 -- Conclusions. Subjects: Investments, Foreign Soviet Union; Industries Soviet Union; Industries; Investments, Foreign; Investments, Foreign Russia; Investments, Foreign Soviet Union; Soviet Union; Russia Industries; Soviet Union Industries; Russia Commerce 19th century; Russia Commerce 20th century; Russia Economic conditions 1861-1917; Russia.
Price: €18.95