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A public empire : property and the quest for the common good in imperial Russia /

"Property rights" and "Russia" do not usually belong in the same sentence. Rather, our general image of the nation is of insecurity of private ownership and defenselessness in the face of the state. Many scholars have attributed Russia's long-term development problems to a f...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pravilova, E. A. (Ekaterina Anatolʹevna)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Property rights" and "Russia" do not usually belong in the same sentence. Rather, our general image of the nation is of insecurity of private ownership and defenselessness in the face of the state. Many scholars have attributed Russia's long-term development problems to a failure to advance property rights for the modern age and blamed Russian intellectuals for their indifference to the issues of ownership. A Public Empire refutes this widely shared conventional wisdom and analyzes the emergence of Russian property regimes from the time of Catherine the Great through World War I and the revo.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1306494753
9781306494755
9781400850266
1400850266