Revisiting Urban Growth in Late-Imperial Russia: A Quantitative Study

Student: Savchenko Pavel

Supervisor: Nathan Marcus

Faculty: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Applied and Interdisciplinary History "Usable Pasts" (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2017

This is a quantitative study of Russian urbanization in the late-imperial period. A unique province-level dataset was analyzed in order to understand was urbanization driven by public goods provision to any extent. The results do not give any basis for such claims yet some techical/methodological issues might have prevented the proper estimation.

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