- PII
- S0869-54150000402-5-1
- DOI
- 10.31857/S50000402-5-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Volume/ Edition
- Volume / Issue 3
- Pages
- 125-135
- Abstract
- The article discusses factors that influenced the shaping of Russian land transportation communications in the 10 th early 20 th centuries. The author points to the preponderance of the bias in favor of natural factors in scholarly literature, and argues that their impact on the development of roads was mediated by cultural factors. Among the important sociocultural factors that shaped the appearance of Russian roads were the level of productive forces in the society, the specificity of its economic makeup, and the particularities of the state's needs and economic (including trade) relationships. Of considerable importance was also a low, relative to Western Europe's, population density; although that factor was compensated by larger labor expenditures per worker.
- Keywords
- Russian land communications, factors shaping appearance of Russian roads, specificities of interaction of natural and cultural factors
- Date of publication
- 01.05.2013
- Number of purchasers
- 1
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- 699