Beginnings of Russian Industrialization, 1800-1860

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by  William L Blackwell

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The Beginnings of
RUSSIAN
Industrialization
1800-1860

The Beginnings of
RUSSIAN
Industrialization
1800-1860
WILLIAM L. BLACKWELL
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Copyright © 1968 by Princeton University Press
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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by Princeton University Press
Acknowledgments
Research for this book has been done in libraries all over the world,
and I would like to express my appreciation here to these institutions,
which were at all times very cooperative: the New York Public Li¬
brary; the Butler Library of Columbia University; the Library of
Congress, the British Museum; the Bibliotheque Nationale, the li¬
braries of the Institut d’Etudes slaves and of the Ecole nationale des
langues orientales vivantes in Paris; the Lenin State Library and the
State Historical Library in Moscow; the Saltykov-Shchedrin Library
in Leningrad; and the libraries and archives of the Pennsylvania His¬
torical Society and the Maryland Historical Society. I am indebted to
the last two organizations and to the Manuscript Division of the New
York Public Library for permission to quote from unpublished mate¬
rials in their collections; to Cyril E. Black for the use of unpub¬
lished articles and papers; and to the Slavic Review for allowing me
to publish a version of my article, “The Old Believers and the Rise of
Private Industrial Enterprise in Early Nineteenth-Century Moscow,”
which appeared in the September 1965, issue.
I also wish to acknowledge the support of New York University,
which provided funds to pay for some of my research expenses. In
addition I wish to express my thanks to my colleagues at New York
University, Professors Edward Tannenbaum and Irwin Unger, for
helpful criticism and discussion; to Mrs. Selma Chernigow Reiff for
assistance with the notes; and to Mr. Nicholas Lupinin and Mr. Gen¬
nady Klimenko for help with the tables. This book and its author owe
a particular debt to Professor Cyril E. Black of Princeton University,
who first interested him, not only in Russian history, but in the his¬
tory of modernization, to which this work may be considered a
contribution.
A Glossary at the end of the book gives the meanings of many of
the important Russian words which are italicized in the text. The
Julian, or “old style” calendar, which was used in Russia until 1918,
has been used throughout except in correspondence where both
Gregorian and Julian dates were entered by the author. The translit¬
eration system of the Library of Congress has been adhered to, by and
large. Spellings of names which have passed into common English
usage have been employed.