Industrial entrepreneurship of peasants in the county towns of Tula province in the second half of the 19th century

Bilenko N.

The article is devoted to the analysis of the forms, scales and trends of the development of peasant industrial entrepreneurship in the county towns of Tula province in the second half of the 19th century - a province of the Russian Empire that combined the features of the Central Industrial and Central agricultural economic regions. Based on the analysis of mass historical sources –fiscal and administrative documentation) – «Journals of general verification of trade and industrial establishments», the dynamics of the development of peasant industrial establishments in the period under review is revealed, local features of organizational forms of industrial entrepreneurship are established, ways of managing peasants with their establishments are characterized, a comparative analysis of trends in the development of peasant industrial entrepreneurship in the provincial center and county towns is carried out. The paper characterizes the influence of formal and informal institutions on the organization of industrial establishments by peasants.

Keywords:economic history, city, peasantry, entrepreneurship, mass historical sources, post-reform Russia.