Railways are the main nerve of the country's economic life, the material support of economic ties and great changes in the position, character and appearance of the masses. Without taking into account their role and significance as one of the components of the capitalist economic mechanism, it is impossible to comprehend either the process of development of post-reform Russia, or the subsequent shifts in all areas of its economy. Meanwhile, this topic has not been developed for a long time. That is why attention is drawn to the book by the senior researcher of the Institute of History of the USSR of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Candidate of Historical Sciences A.M. Solovyova, in which the study of specific historical issues (from the emergence of the first domestic factory roads to the creation of the railway network in the country and the organization of the state railway economy) is combined with the problem of the industrial revolution. This is the first independent IP- page 166 a follow-up that examines the role of rail transport in the development of the industrial revolution in Russia. The work is built on a solid documentary basis. Various data on the technical, economic, and financial condition of roads and rolling stock have been collected from old Russian statistical publications (Works of the Highly Established Commission for the Study of Railway Affairs in Russia (1866-1884) and the Special High Commission for the Study of Railway Affairs in Russia (1908-1912), which published more than 100 volumes)., many of which are almost never used in the literature. The search for new materials in the archives of the Department of Railway Affairs of the Ministry of Finance, the Department of Railways of the Ministry of Railways, various societies, committees, boards and individual figures made it possible to trace the policy directions of the tsarist government regarding railways, to clarify the idea of the mechanism of bank capital actions in this area. Gi ... Читать далее