The Origins of Capitalism in Russia;: Industry and Progress in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

393 Pages·1972·4.885 MB·English

by  Joseph T. Fuhrmann

The Origins
of Capitalism
in Russia

Joseph T. Fuhrmann
The Origins
of Capitalism
in Russia
Industry and Progress
in the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Centuries
Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1972
the origins of capitalism in Russia. Copyright © 1972
by Joseph T. Fuhrmann. All rights reserved, including the
right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.
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in the United States of America. Published simultaneously
in Canada by Burns and MacEachern Ltd., Toronto.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 75-130381
SBN 8129-0165-7
Dedicated to the memory of my friend
James Miller Grimes,
late Professor of History at the
University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee

A cknowledgments
This book began as a dissertation at Indiana
University on Russian iron manufacturing during the seven­
teenth century. I am indebted to many people and organiza­
tions for aid at that stage of its development, above all to my
adviser and dissertation director, John M. Thompson, for his
careful readings of early manuscripts and all but countless
suggestions for their improvement. Professor G. A. Novitskii
of Moscow University gave much help with early Russian
technical terminology. The Foreign Area Fellowship Program
provided financial support during 1963-1965 and the summer
of 1967. The Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants
made it possible for me to spend nine months at Moscow
University during the academic year 1965-1966, and the
librarians of Moscow University’s Gorkii Library enabled me
to gather most of the information contained in these pages.
I must also thank the inter-library loan staffs of Indiana
University and of the University of Texas at Arlington, and
my gracious dissertation typist, Mrs. Theta Stovall of Win­
chester, Tennessee.
Producing a book beyond the dissertation necessitated a
complete revision of earlier material, preparation of a new
Introduction and Conclusion, and the addition of four entirely
new chapters (I, IX, XI, and XII). In achieving this I am much
indebted to a fine secretary, Mrs. Glyndean La Plante, and to
Ivan R. Dee, managing editor of Quadrangle Books, for
his many useful editorial recommendations. But I must express
special gratitude to my lovely wife Mary for her general en­
couragement, and also for compiling the Index. Any errors or
interpretative inadequacies are solely my responsibility.
J.T.F.
Greeneville, Tennessee
October 1970
List of Bibliographical Abbreviations
D. k A.lD.opolnenie к Akt am Istorichestim
E. H.R. English Historical Review
E.S. Entsiklopedicheskii Slovar* (Brokgauz-Efron)
I. z. Istoricheskie zapiski
l.zh. Istoricheskii zhurnal
J. G.OJ.ahrbücher fur Geschichte Osteuropas
K. m. Krepostnaia manufaktura
O. S.P.Oxford Slavonic Papers
P. S.Z.R.I. Polnoe Sobranie Zakonov Rossiiskoi Imperii
R.I.B. Russkaia Istoricheskaia Biblioteka
R. S. Russkaia Starina
S. E.E.R. Slavonic and East European Review
S.G.G.i D. Sobranie Gosudarstvennykh Gramot i Dogovorov
S.R. Slavic Review
VA. Voprosy istorii
Zh.m.n.p. Zhurnal ministerstva narodnago prosveshcheniia