L. Nauka Publishing House. 1970. 324 pp. The print run is 1,150. Price 1 rub. 53 kopecks. G. S. Isaev has already spoken on the problems of the genesis of capitalism .1 His monograph is a further in-depth study of the history of the textile industry in the second half of the XVIII - first half of the XIX century2 . The questions raised by G. S. Isaev were largely the subject of research by P. G. Ryndzunsky, but of a later historical period3 . In a special review, we have already noted that the problems of the genesis of capitalism in Russia require a new monographic development, both of individual issues and materials from different branches of industry .4 G. S. Isaev's book is related to this kind of research, joining similar works of the last 5 years . It is written on a serious source base, thoroughly studied, used and critically meaningful. The author pays special attention to a variety of unofficial statistical data and economic surveys, which, in his opinion, are not sufficiently used in research; in combination with official sources, they provide valuable information about industries that are not taken into account by official statistics (peasant crafts, scattered manufactories, which have fallen out of the field of view of official reports of small-scale industry enterprises, etc.). The author can only be reproached with the fact that he did not attract enough periodicals (magazines, newspapers) of that time. G. S. Isaev set himself the task of analyzing small-scale production as the broad socio - economic basis of manufacture at the end of the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries, of revealing the role of commercial capital in its development, and of considering manufacture not as a form of production, but as a special stage in the development of capitalism in industry, which marked the beginning of the creation of new productive forces (p. 37-38). This is the first time that a monographic study has been undertaken in Soviet literature. The ... Читать далее