title: Russian America and its Problems in Contemporary National Works of Economists
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metadata.value: Grinev, Andrei V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-06-26T22:19:50Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-06-26T22:19:50Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-03
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metadata.value: Grinev A. V. Russian America and its Problems in Contemporary National Works of Economists. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2023, vol. 68, issue 1, рp. 277–300. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.116 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.116
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/41692
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article critically examines the publications of modern Russian economists on the history
  of the former Russian colonies in the New World, sold in 1867 to the United States and subsequently
  forming the territory of the state of Alaska. Paradoxically, economists tend to mainly
  examine historical problems of Russian America, while some historians research economy,
  although everything should be just the opposite. The monitoring of scholarship conducted by
  the author reveals about a dozen works of professional economists — Candidates and Doctors
  of Sciences — who devoted their works (in whole or in part) to certain problems of Russian
  America: the earliest work is dated by 2011, and the most recent articles — by 2021. The depressingly
  low academic level of the vast majority of the analyzed works should be pointed out
  with regret. The fact is that Russian economists, for some unclear reason, almost completely
  ignore a wide range of published documentary sources, not to mention archival materials.
  The latter, if they are used, are not directly related to the history of Russian colonies in the
  New World. In the same way, national economists stubbornly avoid getting acquainted with
  the current Russian historiography about the past of Russian America and do not use more
  or less modern foreign scientific literature about it at all. Instead of academic works, economists
  often turn to non-scientific publications (including writings on alternative history) and
  Internet sites with highly questionable content. The natural result is a large number of errors,
  inaccuracies and incorrect conclusions, which are sometimes supplemented by negligently
  prepared bibliography and lack of elementary publication culture: almost all national economists
  economize on references/footnotes in their works: it is often completely impossible to
  understand where this or that information comes from. Thus, there is an imitation of scholarly
  activity and all sorts of dilettantism instead of real useful research on the history and economy
  of Russian America.
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 68; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian America
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historiography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian economists
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian-American Company
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: alternative history
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Russian America and its Problems in Contemporary National Works of Economists
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metadata.value: Article
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