The large bourgeoisie of Russia. Bokhanov A.

You are in front of you, the only fundamental study of the Russian bourgeoisie in the imperialist stage of its development (late XIX - beginning of the XX century), which has become the original source for the systemic characterization of the reasons for the rise and fall of the Russian economic miracle.

The author also puts on documentary material, with the involvement of a large number of sources and statistics for the first time in historiography, evidence -based questions related to key questions related to the collapse of Russia in 1917. And the main among them, extremely relevant for our time, are as follows: why, in the complex and stormy conflicts of Russian history, the property suffered complete collapse, their ideals, organizations and worldview doctrines; how the main part of the population was susceptible to private capitalist values; What deep reasons caused the political triumph of the radical wing of public forces?

The author, an academic researcher, the largest specialist in the history of the Russian bourgeoisie, for 20 years collected archival and other materials due to the absence of direct sources of information for understandable reasons and created a full -time database of Russian entrepreneurs of the late XIX - beginning XX century. On the basis of its complex analysis, reasoned answers are given to questions about the number of the Russian bourgeoisie, the size of its income, the composition of the highest layer of entrepreneurs, the sources of its replenishment are clarified, the ratio of class and estate characteristics is analyzed, the evolution of the merchants that turned during this period into the approval estate is traced.

The monograph is given about the business career of the famous dealers of the beginning of the 20th century: N. A. Second, I. I. Staheiev, I. X. Ozerov, A. A. Davidov, K. L. Vakhter, T.V. Belozersky and some others.

for Russian entrepreneurs, historians and everyone who is interested in the history of Russia.