Alexandre Radichtchev en Sibérie et le commerce russo-chinois au XVIIIe siècle

Natalia Victorovna Platonova ()
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Natalia Victorovna Platonova: IRHiS - Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion (IRHiS) - UMR 8529 - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CRH (UMR 8558 CNRS / EHESS) - Centre de Recherches Historiques (CRH) _ Unité Mixte de Recherches (UMR 8558 CNRS / EHESS) - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Alexander Radishchev, Russian man of letters, writer, and philosopher of the Enlightenment, became famous with his book "Journey from Petersburg to Moscow" (1790), in which he criticized autocracy and serfdom. He was keenly interested in the economic issues of his time and also wrote during his exile in Siberia in 1792 a work especially devoted to the Russian-Chinese trade in Kiakhta. Here, he highlights the opportunities and the drawbacks for Russia in developing trade with China, and the impact of such trade on the national economy and the way of life of the Siberian people. In this article Radishchev's "Letter on trade with China" is thus analyzed as a valuable source for our understanding both of the specific context of the relations between two neighboring empires in the late eighteenth century and also of Radishchev's own role as a precursor of economics in Russia.

Keywords: Alexander Radishchev; Siberia; economic thought; Russian-Chinese trade; Alexandre Radichtchev; Sibérie; pensée économique; commerce russo-chinois (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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Published in Slavica Occitania, 2012, 35, pp.23-47

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