A Public Empire : Property and the Quest for the Common Good in Imperial Russia /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pravilova, E. A. (Ekaterina Anatolʹevna) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Right of property.
Public domain.
Government ownership.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
Nationalisations > Russie > Histoire.
Droit de propriete > Russie > Histoire.
Domaine public > Russie > Histoire.
Government ownership > Russia > History.
Right of property > Russia > History.
Public domain > Russia > History.
Russia.
Russie > Histoire > 1613-1917.
Russia > History > 1613-1917.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"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
Physical Description:1 online resource (448 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781400850266

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