"Supporting of a power ...": foreign researchers about the emergence of Russian industry

The book publishes the works of a prominent French Slavist historian, professor of the Sorbonne Roger Portal, which describes the process of economic development of the Urals in the XVIII century, its transformation into one of the largest centers of the Russian industry. On a large actual material, the author talks about the political struggle in the Russian court around the ways of economic development of Russia, the activities of the largest breeders, metal production technology at that time, etc. In the author’s work, the author’s works of this topic are addressed in the work of this topic. The study of the modern American scientist Hugh Hudson is devoted to the first Russian factories Demidov. On the example of the study of their activities, the author makes an attempt to identify the features of the transition of Russia from the traditional to industrial society. Of great interest are the problems of relaying cultural continuity posed by the author in inter -ocated relationships, the practice of social ties within the same family of industrialists and a number of other issues. The book is designed for historians, economists, culturalists, demographers, specialists in the field of metallurgy