Pioneers for Profit : Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913

Foreign investment increased from 17 percent of the capital of industrial corporations in Imperial Russia in 1880 to 47 percent in 1914, coinciding with the rapid development of Russian industrialization before World War I. John McKay's study, based largely on intensive research in numerous archives and utilizing many previously unexplored private business records, is the first detailed analysis of the impact of foreign enterprise on Russian industry during this period. His conclusions are significant for historians, economists, and those interested in the development of modern industrial society. Frontmatter (page N/A) LIST OF MAPS (page viii) ABBREVIATIONS (page ix) PREFACE (page xi) Part I. Dimensions of Entrepreneurship (page 1) 1 INTRODUCTION (page 3) 2 ENTREPRENEURS: SOURCES AND TYPES (page 40) 3 THE BASIC STRATEGY (page 72) 4 ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IN STEEL AND COAL (page 112) 5 PATTERNS OF MANAGEMENT (page 158) 6 THE MOBILIZATION OF CAPITAL (page 201) 7 THE PROBLEM OF LABOR (page 242) 8 RELATIONS WITH STATE AND SOCIETY (page 268) 9 A PIONEERING INNOVATOR: THE JOHN COCKERILL COMPANY IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA, 1885-1905 (page 297) 10 BOOM-TIME SPECULATION: THE RYKOVSKII COAL COMPANY (page 318) 11 THE HUTA-BANKOVA STEEL COMPANY AND THE BONNARDEL GROUP (page 337) 12 TOWARD PASSIVE INVESTMENT: THE BANQUE DE L'UNION PARISIENNE AND THE BOGATYR RUBBER COMPANY, 1910-1914 (page 368) 13 CONCLUSIONS (page 379) APPENDIX (page 391) BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 397) INDEX (page 417)