Europe in the Russian Mirror: Four Lectures in Economic History

by Alexander Gershenkron

Book Overview

First published in 1970, Professor Gerschenkron's theme is the contribution which the study of Russian economic history can make to the problems which have preoccupied Western historians. He first considers the way in which the case of the old Believers in Russia, who refused to support the official church but played an important entrepreneurial role in nineteenth-century economic development, bears upon Max Weber's celebrated thesis on the relations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521083907
• ISBN13: 9780521083904
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"