Analysis of the materials of the journal "Russian Economic Review" for 1897

The subject of this article is the publishing activity of the pre-revolutionary scientific journal "Russian Economic Review". The needs of Russia's economic development brought the information aspect to one of the first places in the publishing activities of the Ministry of Finance of Tsarist Russia at the end of the XIX century, which contributed to the appearance of this magazine. Due to the ongoing changes in the economic structure of society, the increasing share and importance of private entrepreneurs, the role of the periodical press, designed for entrepreneurial strata, increased. It is important to note that the publishing activities of the Ministry of Finance in the last decades of the XIX century were in demand among knowledgeable readers – prosperous, economically active, conscious private entrepreneurs and public service figures, theorists and practitioners of market methods of management. It is thanks to the increased demand from readers that professional publications covering all important aspects of economic life have appeared. The author considers the analysis of archival materials of the journal "Russian Economic Review" for 1897 as the object of research. The emphasis is placed on the features of the journal's content, the analysis of materials published in it on important, from the editorial point of view, economic problems of that time, current political and economic information about events inside the country and abroad, materials of criticism, bibliography. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that, using the example of the first year of publication of the Russian Economic Review, domestic and foreign authors of printed articles and reviews on selected topics of the journal and a number of key areas are presented, the views and political preferences of the editorial staff of periodicals of the Ministry of Finance and its leadership are characterized. Having considered the economic circumstances, the development of periodicals, and the activities of the Ministry of Finance in this direction, it can be noted that by 1897 favorable conditions had been formed for the success of the professional magazine Russian Economic Review. The high professional level of the publication was noted due to the careful selection of material, the invitation of authors, and the identification of promising areas of economic development in tsarist Russia. The positive role of the journal is to provide scientific theoretical and practical information to specialists and the entrepreneurial class of Russia.

Russian, Economic, Review, publishing, activity, Ministry, Finance, Of Russia, S.Y. Witte, M.M. Fedorov