REEEC New Directions Lecture: Amanda Gregg, "Beyond 'Backwardness': New Research on Firms in Imperial Russia"
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
- Date
- Sep 30, 2021 4:00 pm
- Speaker
- Amanda Gregg (Middlebury College)
- Registration
- Registration
- Contact
- Stephanie Porter
- chung88@illinois.edu
- Views
- 8
- Originating Calendar
- Campus Humanities Calendar
Firms in Imperial Russia faced institutional barriers to firm formation and a relatively small financial sector, yet Russian industry grew rapidly around the turn of the twentieth century. This talk presents results from several studies using newly collected firm-level and corporation-level data from the Russian Empire that reconcile the dynamism of the Russian industrial economy with remaining obstacles, thus permitting a more nuanced assessment of economic development under the Tsars.