Thomas C. Owen

Ph.D., History, Harvard University, 1973
Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
tcowen1@verizon.net
617.661.2954

Research Interests
Russian social, economic, and business history

Current Projects
“Economic Cycles in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union: Statistics, Early Soviet Theory, and Economic Policy, 1850-1930”

Selected Publications
Dilemmas of Russian Capitalism: Fedor Chizhov and Corporate Enterprise in the Railroad Age. Harvard University Press, 2005.

“Capitalism in Russia,” “Guilds,” “Merchants,” “Russian Corporation.”  In The Encyclopedia of Russian History.  Edited by James L. Millar. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004.

“Recent Developments in Economic History, 1700-1940.”  In After the Fall: Essays in Russian and Soviet Historiography, 39-50.  Edited by Michael David-Fox, Peter Holquist, and Marshall Poe.  Bloomington: Slavica, 2004.

"Entrepreneurship, Government, and Society in Russia." In Reinterpreting
Russia, edited by Geoffrey Hosking and Robert Service, 107-25. London:
Arnold, 1999.

Russian Corporate Capitalism from Peter the Great to Perestroika. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1995.