{"title":"The Development of Urban and Peasant Trade in Russia at the End of the XVIII Century. (Case-Study of the Vladimir Viceroyalty)","authors":"Artem Lyapanov","doi":"10.17150/2308-2488.2023.24(2).209-226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17150/2308-2488.2023.24(2).209-226","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the development of domestic trade in the Russian Empire in the context of the provincial reform of 1775, using the example of the Vladimir Viceroyalty. The new administrative-territorial unit lacked uyezd (county) centers. Seven villages and settlements were renamed cities. However, according to the economic situation, the locals clearly did not correspond to their new status. The government found itself in a dilemma when, on the one hand, it was forced to support the class rights of merchants and philistines, limiting peasant trade geographically and in the assortment of goods. On the other hand, it could not but take advantage of the economic activity of the peasants, luring out the richest of them to the cities, thereby contributing to the development of peasant trade.","PeriodicalId":125647,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic History and History of Economics","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139360881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Organization of Hunting and Fishing Industry in Transbaikalia in 1919–1922","authors":"D. Bespalko","doi":"10.17150/2308-2488.2023.24(2).279-302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17150/2308-2488.2023.24(2).279-302","url":null,"abstract":"The subject of the research is the making of hunting and fishing economy sector on the territory of Transbaikalia region in the first post-revolutionary years. Particular attention is paid to the issues of setting organizational and technical tasks for the creation of the fishing and hunting industry and its management system in 1919–1922. In 1919 the Omsk Government of Alexander V. Kolchak made an attempt of complex restructuring of the hunting and fishing economy sector on the vast territory of Western and Eastern Siberia, including Transbaikalia; in this connection special hunting zones, administratively adhered to the richest raw lands, were allocated. However, the reforms carried out during the Civil War were faced with a lack of funds and other resources to implement them in any successful way. By 1920 only the Irkutsk-Transbaikalia hunting zone was left, which became part of the Far Eastern Republic (DVR). It was the only one in Siberia and the Far East, actually the pioneer in organization of proper hunting economy on territories, where even the concept of normative-legal base for regulation of seasonal harvesting was absent. However, the broadly conceived reform programme in the industry was not implemented due to political instability and economic decline. The management of the fishing and hunting industry was guided by decrees of the overthrown Omsk government, while the Far Eastern Republic government had neither the will nor the capacity to deal with pressing, but currently overshadowed, economic issues.","PeriodicalId":125647,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic History and History of Economics","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139360937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Are There Any Goods Hidden under Your Clothes?”: Excerpts on the History of Combatting Smuggling at the Kyakhta Customs","authors":"Aldar Shirapov, Naydan-Zhargal Dorzhiev","doi":"10.17150/2308-2488.2023.24(2).227-246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17150/2308-2488.2023.24(2).227-246","url":null,"abstract":"The article gives a brief description of the trade in the town of Kyakhta, examines the conditions, causes of the emergence and growth of smuggling, reveals methods and specifics of fighting illegal import/export of goods through the Kyakhta customs in the pre-revolutionary period. The task of the Kyakhta Customs, established simultaneously with the trading post in 1727, was not only the collection of duties to replenishing the treasury, but also the fight against smuggling. As the turnover of the Kyakhta trade increased and various restrictions were imposed by both the Russian Empire and Qing China, the assortment and volume of smuggled goods and methods of their delivery changed. At the same time, customs service methods aimed at fighting smuggling were improved. Legislative and normative legal acts, record keeping and reporting documents of Fund 102 \"Kyakhta Customs\" of the State Archives of the Republic of Buryatia, materials of pre-revolutionary periodicals allowed identifying a diverse arsenal of ever more complicated methods and ways to counteract illegal import/export of goods - from erection of special structures and ambushes to introduction of round-the-clock border patrols and development of a system of fines and punishment for smugglers. However, despite the legislative restrictions and prohibitions established by the state and the efforts made by the Kyakhta customs officers, the problem of combating smuggling remained intractable.","PeriodicalId":125647,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic History and History of Economics","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139361030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamics of Livestock Development in the Individual and Public Sectors of Agriculture of the Urals in 1946–1965","authors":"V. Motrevich, V. Mamyachenkov","doi":"10.17150/2308-2488.2023.24(2).249-276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17150/2308-2488.2023.24(2).249-276","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the materials stored in the Russian State Archives of Economics of the Central Investigative Committee of the USSR, the development of animal husbandry in the individual and public sectors of agriculture of the Urals in the post-war twentieth anniversary is being investigated. The dynamics of production of four main types of livestock products (meat, milk, eggs, wool) in each of the seven studied republics and regions of the Ural Economic Region was analyzed. The influence of the state's socio-economic policy on the dynamics of livestock development in the private and public sectors of agriculture is shown. It is concluded that in the period under study, the complete socialization of the agrarian sector did not occur.","PeriodicalId":125647,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic History and History of Economics","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139361135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Dynamics of the Housing Construction in the Republics of the USSR in the 1920s–1980s. Part 2","authors":"I. Pilipenko","doi":"10.17150/2308-2488.2022.23(1).7-43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17150/2308-2488.2022.23(1).7-43","url":null,"abstract":"Despite 30 years of market reforms, the main difference between the housing sector in Russia and other post-socialist countries and that of the advanced Western nations lies in housing tenure distribution. In the former states, outright homeowners with property mainly built in the planned economy dominate the market. At the same time, in the latter countries, the majority of households pay rent or take out a mortgage (these types of households account for three-quarters of households in the USA and on average almost two-thirds of households in Western and Northern European nations). This article examines the evolution of main indicators of housing construction in the USSR as well as in the 15 Union republics from 1918 to 1990. The research rests upon a database composed by the author from more than 120 official statistical sources at the national and Republics' level. This work covers not only state housing construction but also individual housing construction as well as housing construction cooperatives in the USSR republics, which the post-Soviet and foreign scholarly literature have often neglected. We identify the main stages of housing construction in the USSR and analyze the data on housing completions in urban and rural areas, the evolution of the housing stock, flats and houses built, and the statistics on the people in the Union Republics who improved their living conditions. The time series collected and per capita indicators across the 15 republics of the USSR calculated by the author, reveal quite synchronized development of their housing sectors. Nevertheless, the three Baltic republics were leaders in many per capita indicators, whereas the RSFSR, the Kazakh, Byelorussian and Armenian SSR stood out in terms of housing completions and share of people who improved their living conditions. At the same time, the Georgian, Ukrainian and Moldavian SSR excelled in floor area per person.","PeriodicalId":125647,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic History and History of Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133247846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Economic Crimes in the Irkutsk Province in the Second Half of the 19th — Early 20th Centuries","authors":"D. Mikhaelis","doi":"10.17150/2308-2488.2022.23(1).152-166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17150/2308-2488.2022.23(1).152-166","url":null,"abstract":"The article is dedicated to the criminal legislation regulating the protection of property in the Russian Empire during the implementation of the judicial reform of 1864, case study of the Irkutsk Province. The author examines the law enforcement practice of that time using the specific articles of criminal legislation applied then to fight economic crimes: theft and damage to property, fraud, abuse of official position. The author indicates that certain articles of criminal legislation, due to local specifics, have not been applied in the practice of magistrate and general courts in Siberia. Quantitative characteristics of economic crimes give the overall picture of economic crimes both on the scale of the Russian Empire and in its regions. The study of the specifics of economic crimes in the Irkutsk province and their consideration in the general and magistrate courts allows the author to conclude that they were associated not only with the peculiarities of judicial reform in Siberia, but also with its socio-economic development. The study of archival data relating to various trials revealed procedural errors due to the excessive workload of judges, as well as the insufficient level of their professional training.","PeriodicalId":125647,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic History and History of Economics","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134143362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revising the Construction of New Cities in Siberia: a Historical Approach to the Modern Idea","authors":"Grigorii Tsykunov","doi":"10.17150/2308-2488.2022.23(1).169-187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17150/2308-2488.2022.23(1).169-187","url":null,"abstract":"The article deals with economic, social, scientific and project issues related to the idea of building new cities in Siberia. And this is not just about urban agglomerations, but about economic, scientific and industrial centers. In this regard, the author examines the historical experience of urbanization in Siberia, primarily in the Angara-Yenisei region. During the Soviet period, an extensive network of new towns, comfortable to live in, was created around the constructed power and industrial plants. The article examines the sources of attracting the population and creation of labor collectives in areas of new industrial and civil engineering construction. The author indicates possible risks of the new cities’ acquiring mono-settlement status, outlined by the Soviet practice of urban planning. The author pays great attention to the use of modern experience in the construction of enterprises in the framework of a partnership between the state and private business. The construction of new cities in Siberia will require huge public and private investment. In this regard, possible areas of adjustment to the idea of new cities associated with the revitalization of existing single-industry towns are identified.","PeriodicalId":125647,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic History and History of Economics","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123635447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Methods of Mathematical Statistics in Reconstruction of Historical Data on Economic Growth Factors of the Former USSR Republics","authors":"N. Grineva, D. Didenko","doi":"10.17150/2308-2488.2022.23(1).44-81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17150/2308-2488.2022.23(1).44-81","url":null,"abstract":"The lack of a complete set of historical statistical data is one of the main problems that does not allow econometric modelling and forecasting to be carried out in full. The historical data are characterized by numerous omissions, either singular or almost entire decades. The task of reconstructing them adequately is therefore always relevant. The purpose of the article is to demonstrate the application of mathematical statistics methods for the reconstruction of the series of economic indicators of the former Soviet republics, subdivided in three groups: the volume of the economy, its institutional environment and the general technological level. The authors set and solved the following tasks: 1) formed a set of data on the economic statistics of the Union republics of the former USSR; 2) demonstrated the possibility of applying mathematical methods, especially regression analysis, for the reconstruction of historical and economic statistics; 3) tested the results by determining which trends in spatial differentiation prevailed in the late USSR: towards convergence or towards divergence of the republics. Methods. Modelling was based on historical national accounts, population and labour force, human capital, science financing in the Soviet republics, wage differentials for knowledge workers and industrial workers, homicide rate, and infant mortality rate. Methods of system analysis and econometric modelling were used, mainly correlation and regression analysis. Results. Data series were reconstructed for the former Soviet republics: GDP, homicide rate, wage differentials for knowledge workers and industrial workers, infant mortality rate. Their values are given in the Appendix to the article for further use by researchers.","PeriodicalId":125647,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic History and History of Economics","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117009579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Typographers of the Crimean ASSR in the 1920s and 1930s: Personnel Characteristics","authors":"T. Pirozhkova","doi":"10.17150/2308-2488.2022.23(1).84-107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17150/2308-2488.2022.23(1).84-107","url":null,"abstract":"The article uncovers some questions of the labor history of printing production workers in the Crimean ASSR in 1920–1930s. The aim of the article is investigation of the staff structure of the Crimean ASSR printing industry workers in comparison with the national structure. The objectives of the study are to examine the dynamics of the number of workers in the printing industry of the Crimea, to analyze the proportion of women, national personnel (Crimean Tatars), adolescents, skilled workers in the overall structure of the printing industry workers of the Crimean ASSR, and to compare the obtained results with the national indicators. The study is based on published statistics, reports and archival sources. As a result, the author concludes that the labor force of the Crimean ASSR printing industry developed in line with nationwide trends, but with certain specifics. The growth in the number of printing workers, typical for the country as a whole, was uneven in Crimea and its rate was somewhat lower than in the rest of the country. The increase in the proportion of women in the Crimean printing industry at the beginning of the considered period was somewhat lower than the statistical average; in the 1930s it generally corresponded to the national and industry averages. The personnel policy was based on the requirements of indigenization and implied the recruitment of workers of Crimean Tatar nationality; however, the level of indigenization in the printing industry did not reach the required indicators. Work on the involvement of adolescents was carried out, but there were problems with the training organization. The number of qualified personnel in the republic's printing industry was insufficient, which had an impact on the product quality. In conclusion, the author forms the tasks for further research into the labor history of printing production workers in the Crimean ASSR.","PeriodicalId":125647,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic History and History of Economics","volume":"29 17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131270681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of Domestic Services in Primorski Krai in the Context of Soviet Social and Economic Policy (1960s–1980s)","authors":"Sergej Vlasov","doi":"10.17150/2308-2488.2022.23(1).132-149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17150/2308-2488.2022.23(1).132-149","url":null,"abstract":"The relevance of the study is due to the fact that the service sector plays an import role in modern society, improves the standard of living, shows how developed the country’s economy is, how it works for the interests of the population. The object of the study is the development of domestic services in the of Soviet socio-economic policy in the period of the 1960s – 1980s. The subject is the implementation of this process on the territory of Primorsky Krai. The measures taken by the party-economic leadership to improve domestic services in the country and the implementation of government decisions by local officials in a particular region are shown on the basis of documentary sources. It is revealed that despite significant investments in the sphere of domestic services, an increase in the number of enterprises, an increase in the volume of household services, they were not successful in creating an effectively working system that would meet the needs of the population. The theoretical basis of the research is the theory of modernization, which allowed us to establish that the USSR’s attempt to copy the experience of developed countries in creating a developed service sector corresponding to the level of industrial society was only partially successful. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the first time it shows the inability of state structures, with all the powerful, comprehensive capabilities they had, to meet the needs of citizens in basic household services (housing repairs, shoes, hairdressing services, etc.). The conclusion is that the example of Primorsky Krai demonstrates the inefficiency of the Soviet socialist model of domestic service development.","PeriodicalId":125647,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic History and History of Economics","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123233156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}