CATCHING-UP AND FALLING BEHIND: RUSSIAN ECONOMIC GROWTH, 1690s TO 1880s
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Time periods:
1690 -- 1890
Summary:
We provide decadal
estimates of GDP per capita for the Russian Empire from the 1690s to the 1880s,
making it possible for the first time to compare the economic performance of
one of the world’s largest economies with other countries. Significant Russian economic
growth before the 1760s resulted in catching-up on northwest Europe, but this
was followed by a period of negative growth between the 1760s and 1800s and
stagnation from the 1800s to the 1880s, leaving late-nineteenth century Russia
further behind the West than at the beginning of the eighteenth century.