Russia's Foreign Trade and Economic Expansion in the Seventeenth Century: Windows on the World (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004138964)

This study is the first comprehensive assessment of Russia's commercial relations with the outside world in the seventeenth century and of the relationship between trade and economic growth. Based on exhaustive research in some thirty archival repositories, it represents the first systematic quantification of commodity flows across the range of Russia's trade partners. The book reveals late Muscovy to have been an increasingly open economy, experiencing remarkable commercial expansion driven in large part by its interaction with the outside world. It fundamentally debunks the notion of pre-Petrine Russia as a closed and stagnant, essentially mediaeval, society and established a clear link between seventeenth-century economic policy and Russia's subsequent rise to become one of the great powers of the world.

Author: Kotilaine
ISBN-10: 900413896X
ISBN-13: 9789004138964
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 11/23/2004
Pages: 664
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.85lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.50w x 1.70d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2005 pg. 1869