title: State Regulation of the Economy in the Era of War and Revolution
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metadata.value: Moore, Colleen M.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-06-26T20:59:16Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-06-26T20:59:16Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-03
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metadata.value: Moore C. M. State Regulation of the Economy in the Era of War and Revolution. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2023, vol. 68, issue 1, рp. 82–92. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.105
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.105
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/41681
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metadata.value: I. V. Potkina’s new monograph examines state intervention in the economy during World
  War I by analyzing legislation enacted by the tsarist and Provisional governments between
  1914 and 1917. Her analysis highlights the main areas of economic intervention, the economic
  priorities of the respective administrations, the quantitative distribution of regulatory
  activity by year, and the evolution of the legislative process in response to the extraordinary
  circumstances of wartime. The author concludes that the imperial government regulated the
  economy effectively during the war and more successfully than its Provisional successor. This
  conclusion challenges the prevailing narrative of the “backward” autocracy’s mismanagement
  of the war effort as the primary reason for its collapse and compels a reconsideration of the
  question: If the tsarist regime efficiently managed the wartime economy, then why was it overthrown?
  This review focuses on Potkina’s treatment of regulatory policies regarding wartime
  prohibition and the establishment of fixed prices for necessities to illustrate the discrepancy
  between official and popular perceptions of the relative success of the state’s interventional
  measures. Prohibition was greeted with pogroms of premises trading in spirits and cases of
  poisoning by non-potable substances such as denatured alcohol, and most of the government’s
  price-fixing resolutions applied only to goods procured for the armed forces, not those sold
  to the population in the rear. Potkina attributes the causes of the revolution to the disloyalty
  of public organizations that constituted the liberal political opposition, but this explanation
  fails to account for the popular dimension of the events of February, which remains a task for
  future researchers.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 68; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: World War I
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: legislation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: economy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: revolution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: peasantry
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: prohibition
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: food supply
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: State Regulation of the Economy in the Era of War and Revolution
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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