Roman B. KonchakovMoscow School of Social and Economic Sciences · Department of History
Roman B. Konchakov
Candidate of Historical Sciences (Ph.D.)
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Introduction
Railway construction and social modernization of cities and villages in rural provinces of the Russian Empire (second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries) .
Key: Social transformation, demographics, mobility, mentality, economics, administration institutions.
Additional affiliations
September 2005 - present
Laboratory of Social History
Position
- Principal Investigator
Description
- Tambov State University
September 1998 - present
Institute for Social and Humanities Education
Position
- Professor (Associate)
Publications
Publications (16)
Theoretical and empirical studies show that human capital is among crucial determinants of economic development, due to its impact on technological modernization, productivity and economic complexity. Russia’s spatial disparities
imply the regional perspective on these phenomena. We aim at estimating the influence of human capital on economic devel...
We aim at estimating the influence of human capital on economic
development using the two-step least-squares method. At first step, human capital variable between 2004 and 2019 is taken as a function of (1) a set of historical instrumental variables from late 19th – early 20th centuries and from the middle of the 20th century, as well as (2) a set...
This paper is an empirical test of what is called a unified theory of inequality and growth (Galor and Zeira, 1988, 1993; Galor and Moav, 2004; Galor, 2012) – in early stages of industrialization inequality enhanced the process of development by channeling resources towards individuals whose marginal propensity to save is higher, thus enhancing phy...
The previous research with incomplete data revealed that zemstva were spending more per capita in regions with low level of education, but these spending did not make much of a difference – human capital in these regions remained relatively low (Popov, Konchakov, Didenko, 2024). The results reported in this paper provide additional and more rigorou...
The key question of the economic and social post-reform history of Russia (after the agrarian reform of 1861) is what exactly led to the revolutions of the early 20th century. Were these revolutions a natural result of the growth of social tensions due to the flawed “Prussian path” of the development of capitalism in agriculture (a combination of l...
This paper shows that railroad building in Russia, as in Europe and the US in the nineteenth century, improved the value of land, a classic benefit of transportation investment in largely agrarian countries. From a database constructed for this paper, we use cross-sectional data for the fifty European Russian regions to show the association of the...
This paper identifies education, skills training and improved social infrastructure as key development issues to address population decline in regions of steady out-migration from the Russian Arctic. Migration flows have mostly stabilised after the sharp and unexpectedly large population decline in the Arctic in the 1990s, during the transition to...
The railways, which have become the main visual image of post-reform era, has created a new form of representation of state power - imperial trains. This new side russian railway development fully disclosed during the reign of Alexander III, when the development of the railway network covers almost all the provinces of European Russia, and annually...
The article discusses the role of zemstvo in the development of the railway network in Central Russia on the example of zemstvo Tambov province. Local self-government has become a powerful lever for the implementation of the economic interests of the most influential representatives of regional aristocratic elite. The growth of self-consciousness f...
This article addresses the environmental aspects of railway construction and railway infrastructure development in Russia in the second half of 19th century. Analyzes the impact of rail transport on land, forest and water resources at national and regional context. On the example of the railroad studied the formation of ecological thinking in the s...
In the early twentieth century. rail infrastructure has become an important element of social life. She contributed to the development of mobility of different social groups of the Russian empire, including the important place occupied by students. The railway has become the new place of social communication, the perception of contemporaries which...
Railway building was lobbied by various court groups behind
which there were certain representatives of Russian aristocracy occupying
important posts in the local governments. In this work are analyzed
the possibilities of "provincials" groups and also the influence which
regional initiatives rendered on the process of railway building in the
Centr...
This article provides an overview of the modern (at the time of publication) approaches and ways of using GIS in historical research (environmental history, urban history, archeology, visualization of socio-economic and cultural processes, etc.)
Questions
Questions (4)
Is there a study like a book T. Siebel (Digital Transformation: Survive and Thrive in an Era of Mass Extinction), but not about business, but about universities?
Now they talk a lot about the technology of blockchain and distributed databases, etc. Is this really a unique innovation that did not have analogies in the "precomputer" era? Can you name effective examples (from the world history) of the existence of decentralized economic or social systems (infrastructures) that could provide for their own stable development for a long time?
In the Russian Empire and the beginning of the construction of new rail stations followed the rite of consecration construction equipment, locomotives and wagons. Has there been a priest blessing the railway stations in Europe and America (1830-1900-s) after the completion of their construction? Was this an important (necessary) tradition? Or was sanctification by this time a private archaic tradition?
These directions are two distinct trends or the same?
