title: The History of the Activity of the Bukhara Branch of the Russian-Asian Commercial Bank
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metadata.value: Alimdjanov, Bakhtiyor A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-06-21T10:43:42Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-06-21T10:43:42Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Alimdjanov B. A. The History of the Activity of the Bukhara Branch of the Russian-Asian Commercial Bank. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2018, vol. 63, issue 2, pp. 597–613.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2018.216
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/10295
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article examines the fundamentals of the activity and functions of the Bukhara branch
  of the Russian-Asian commercial bank (1901–1917) in the Bukhara emirate. In Soviet historiography,
  banks were understood as instruments of “colonialism”, both Western and Russian.
  On the basis of archival data the author proves that the financial institutions of the Russian
  Empire took local specificity into account and encouraged the production of export-oriented
  products. The author actively uses interbank correspondence, annual reports of the branch
  manager, as well as audit materials of the Bukhara branch. For the first time in the historiography,
  active and passive operations of the bank, its expenses and profits, as well as the personnel
  of the bank have been studied. The author, unlike Soviet and post-Soviet researchers, believes
  that banks did not become “monopolies” in the economy of Central Asia. The largest Russian
  bank in the region that had an extensive branch network (12 branches) throughout Central
  Asia was the Russian-Asian Commercial Bank (until 1910 the Russian-Chinese Bank). It
  should be noted that the Russian-Asian Bank attempted to take control of cotton production
  and industrial production. However, in the author’s opinion, it failed to become the driving
  force of the economic growth of the region, which was due to the adaptation to existing
  economic relations in Turkestan, Governor-generalship and khanates. From the perspective
  of the banks, “modernization” of the Central Asian economy involved financing agricultural
  export and mediating between the metropolis and the periphery. “Colonial” periphery at
  first glance seemed to be an attractive sphere for investing and receiving super profits, but
  the speculative nature of the Turkestan economy prevented “the normal” development of the
  banks. As a result, the economic “modernization” of Central Asia faltered and gave way to the
  Soviet experiment.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 63; Issue 2
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Bukhara
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian-Asian commercial bank
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: emir
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: capitalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: modernization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The History of the Activity of the Bukhara Branch of the Russian-Asian Commercial Bank
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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