RUSSIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY ON THE ROLE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN TRADE-PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT OF KAZAN IN POST-REFORM PERIOD

Abstract

Purpose: complex reviewing of a domestic historiography of business in commerce and industry development of the post-reform Kazan. Methods: historicism method, and also historical and genetic, comparative-historical, typological, historical and system methods. Results: The list of the main publications connected to different aspects of involvement of the Kazan businessmen in an economic and social development of the city in the 1860-1900th is systematized and classified. The main tendencies and features of study of this problem that allowed to justify a historiographic periodization are revealed and described. The directions of further study of a problem are offered. Scientific novelty: the main historiographic estimates of a role of the Kazan business in economic development of the post-reform Kazan are revealed, systematized and described. The debatable moments in approaches to a problem (sources of addition of merchants in the city, evolution and differentiation of the Tatar business) are specified. Practical significance: Historiographic materials of article can be used when writing generalizing and special researches on an economic and social history of Kazan, works on development of domestic business, in teaching activities at the higher and high school, and also in museum practice.

Keywords

• russian empire
• second half of the 19^th c
• kazan
• tradesmen
• economic development
• tatar entrepreneurship
• post-soviet historiography