The Twentieth-Century Urals Economy in Historical Perspective

The article discusses major works on economic history published by Urals scholars over the past few decades and outlines the main stages of their research development. The analysis of these works leads to the theoretical conclusion that there has been a recent upsurge in the scholarly interest in economic history. This trend is related to the multimethodological approach gaining popularity among these scholars and the two disciplines, economics and history, drawing closer together. There is a popular belief that history can prove useful to any economist as a storage of economic facts tested by life itself and as a collection of various economic experiments. History, however, is also very important as a source of economic ideas. Thus, there is a process of genuine ‘cross-disciplinary communication’, which manifests itself in economists and historians’ exchanging theories developed within the framework of their disciplines. In its modern stage, the economic history of the Urals focuses on the problems which were not previously covered by historical studies for a number of objective reasons: some sources were classified and unavailable due to security control; and some topics were considered inappropriate to raise in studies of national history. Historians have now turned to such questions as the creation and development of industry-specific territorial production complexes, which used to be predominantly studied by economists. Nowadays, economic history discovers new topics for research, expands its database of sources, applies diverse methodology, and uses conceptual approaches and methods developed both by Russian and foreign economists

Ural economy of the XX century by historians'

In the article, the most prominent works of the Ural scientists in economic history for the last decades are considered. Stages of development of research interest of historians and economists in this issue are allocated. On the example of these works, the authors of the article draw a theoretical conclusion that there is a growth of interest in economic history due to the development of multimethodological approach of scientists, rapprochement of positions of representatives of these sciences. The history is useful for every scientist-economist not only as a storeroom of the economic facts checked by life and collection of experiments testing economic science in all directions but also it is very important as a source of economic ideas. There are authentic cross-cultural communications revealing in mutual use by representatives of historical and economic science of the explaining theories developed within each of the scientific disciplines. For the present stage of the economic history, research of Ural, the unstudied issues by historical science for the objective causes are the most relevant. These are the issues like prohibition of the use of sources because of topics' secrecy, an existence of non-disclosure subjects, undesirable subjects in works on national history. In the article, development problems in the economy of Ural of the branch, territorial and production complexes earlier investigated mainly by representatives of economic science are considered. Research of economic history is characterized by the new scientific issues, development of source base, application to a research of various methodological bases, use of the conceptual approaches and methods of research developed in foreign and national economic science

Ural economy of the XX century by historians'

In the article, the most prominent works of the Ural scientists in economic history for the last decades are considered. Stages of development of research interest of historians and economists in this issue are allocated. On the example of these works, the authors of the article draw a theoretical conclusion that there is a growth of interest in economic history due to the development of multimethodological approach of scientists, rapprochement of positions of representatives of these sciences. The history is useful for every scientist-economist not only as a storeroom of the economic facts checked by life and collection of experiments testing economic science in all directions but also it is very important as a source of economic ideas. There are authentic cross-cultural communications revealing in mutual use by representatives of historical and economic science of the explaining theories developed within each of the scientific disciplines. For the present stage of the economic history, research of Ural, the unstudied issues by historical science for the objective causes are the most relevant. These are the issues like prohibition of the use of sources because of topics' secrecy, an existence of non-disclosure subjects, undesirable subjects in works on national history. In the article, development problems in the economy of Ural of the branch, territorial and production complexes earlier investigated mainly by representatives of economic science are considered. Research of economic history is characterized by the new scientific issues, development of source base, application to a research of various methodological bases, use of the conceptual approaches and methods of research developed in foreign and national economic science.Рассмотрены наиболее крупные работы уральских ученых по экономической истории за последние десятилетия. Выделены этапы развития исследовательского интереса историков и экономистов. Сделаны теоретические выводы о том, что происходит рост интереса к экономической истории в силу развития мультиметодологического подхода ученых, сближение позиций представителей данных наук. Приведены проблемы создания в экономике Урала отраслевых территориальных и производственных комплексов, ранее исследуемых преимущественно представителями экономической науки