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The Plow, the Hammer, and the Knout
Arcadius KahanRichard Hellie
其他書名
An Economic History of Eighteenth-Century Russia
出版University of Chicago Press, 1985-09
主題Business & Economics / Economic ConditionsBusiness & Economics / Economic HistoryBusiness & Economics / Economics / GeneralHistory / GeneralHistory / Russia / ImperialPolitical Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy
ISBN02264225349780226422534
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=c5OZ4ACHAjoC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In this extraordinary rich and subtle work, Arcadius Kahan analyzes a massive collection of documents which revise traditional interpretations of eighteenth-century Russian economic history. Kahan stresses economic rationality in the context of social constraints, offering the fullest and most convincing explanation yet of the economic foundations of Russia's power. He shows that what have been taken as major failings in the Russian economy were in fact resourceful and even ingenious methods of circumventing deeply rooted structural obstacles to change. Kahan also escapes two extremes that have bedeviled Russian historians since the nineteenth century: he avoids depicting the state as an autonomous structure that acted with impunity upon a passive society, and he refutes the notion of the state as a mere instrument for advancing selfish class interests.