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Foreign Trade and Tsarist Policy before World War I: An Exchange

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Extract

Over a decade ago I published an article in this journal which discussed the factors underlying the freedom of action which tsarist diplomacy displayed in the years prior to World War I. The article resulted from a conviction that it was necessary to account for Russian freedom of action in the face of the traditional interpretation that foreign debts had greatly restricted Russian diplomatic independence.

Type
Notes and Comment
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1981

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References

1. Sontag, John P., “Tsarist Debts and Tsarist Foreign PolicySlavic Review, 27, no. 4 (December 1968): 529-1CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2. Gregory, Paul R., “A Note on Russia's Merchandise Balance and Balance of Payments During the Industrialization EraSlavic Review, 38, no. 4 (December 1979): 655-62Google Scholar.

3. Ibid., p. 660.

4. For the trade data see Sontag, “Tsarist Debts,” pp. 536 and 538.

5. For a contemporary discussion of the inadequacies of tsarist data see Grekov, I, “Neobkhodimye reformy v statistike vneshnei torgovliPromyshlennost’ i torgovlia, July 1, 1911, pp. 42-45Google Scholar.

6. Moravskii, A. lu., Itogiraionogos “ezdasevemo-zapadnogokraiapovoprosameksportavsviazi s peresmotrom torgovogo dogovora s Germaniei (Vil'na, 1914), p. 5Google Scholar.

7. Gregory, “A Note,” p. 656.

8. Ibid., p. 662.

9. Ibid.