RUDN Journal of Russian History (Sep 2009)
Export-oriented state industry of Russia in Modernizing Process at the End of 17th - the First Half of the 18th Century
Abstract
The article is devoted to the research of the main tendencies of development of state potash industry in Russia, which was in fact a peculiar export-oriented branch of industry in the period of Peter's modernization. The article studies the tendencies of development of potash industry and reveals its determining factors; measures for increasing the production efficiency at the state manufactures taken bu the Russian government, as well as the ways of production promoting on the foreign market.