Foreign participation in Russian economic life. Notes on British enterprise, 1865-1914' in G Guroff & F V Carstensen (eds), Entrepreneurship in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union

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Deals with the involvement of foreign enterprise in Russia, especially 1885-1903, through a series of case studies of the nature of involvement by eleven British businesses. These are: De Jersey and the Knoop family, especially Ludwig Knoop, d1894, owners of Russian textile mills and exporters of textile related goods from Manchester; J & P Coats Ltd, Glasgow; Voronin, Luetschg & Cheshire, leading owners of Russian textile mills and textile merchants; W & T Fletcher and Simon May & Co of Nottingham, owners of lace mills in Russia and leading international lace merchants; Frank Reddaway & Co owners of belting, hose, etc, making plant in Russia; Thos Firth & Sons Ltd, Sheffield, owners of Russian steel making plant; Richard W Carr & Co of Sheffield, owners of a tool steel works in Russia; R Smith & Co of Moscow, owner of a boiler making works; Morgan Crucible Co Ltd, manufacturers of industrial ceramic products in Russia; A M Luther and Venesta Ltd, makers of plywood products with Russian interests; R & T Elworthy, Gel'ferick-sade, and John Greaves & Co, manufacturers in Russia of agricultural machinery