Sergey Witte and his Foreign Investment Policy in the studies by English-speaking scholars

Abstract

. The article discusses the development of the interest of English-speaking historians in the foreign investment policy of Sergey Witte. The paper also examines the role of the Secret Memorandum of Sergey Wittein the understanding of the foreign investment in the Russian economy. The author shows that Russian and English-speaking historians, despite the political upheavals of the 20th century, were engaged in a scholarly conversation in their discussion of the subject.

Keywords

• vitte
• foreign business
• foreign investment
• secret memorandum of sergey witte nicolas ii
• russian industrialisation