Merchants and Entrepreneurs in Imperial Russia

Alfred Rieber seeks to explain how Russia developed a capitalist economy and launched a major industrialization without giving rise to a mature bourgeoisie. His analysis concentrates on the deep@-seated social divisions that prevented the political unity of the Russian middle classes even when their vital interests were threatened by powerful bureaucrats and a workers' revolution. He concludes that the fate of the Russian merchants and industrialists was part of a larger social fragmentation in Russia on the eve of World War I.Rieber, Alfred J. is the author of 'Merchants and Entrepreneurs in Imperial Russia', published 1982 under ISBN 9780783780580 and ISBN 0783780583.