Russia and Finland during Industrialisation (1870s—1930s)

Russian-Finnish Workshop
May 16-17, 2003, Moscow

Moscow Lomonosov State University, Faculty of History, Room 652

Organizers:

• Faculty of History, Moscow Lomonosov State University
• Department of Social Science History, University of Helsinki

May 16, 2003
Session I. Trade and Business History

Session Ia
Chair: Prof. Leonid Borodkin

10:30-11:30
• Prof. Riitta Hjerppe. "Russian enterprises in Finland before and after the Revolution".
• Discussant: Prof. Yuri Petrov.

11:30-12:30
• Prof. Irina Potkina. "Ownership of the foreign companies in Russia: legislation and practice (1890s-1917)".
• Discussant: Dr Mikael Korhonen.

Session Ib
Chair: Prof. Sakari Heikkinen

12:45-13:45
• Dr Mikael Korhonen. "Finnish companies in Russia before and after the Revolution 1917: profits, losses and compensation claims".
• Discussant: Prof. Irina Potkina.

15:00-16:00
• Prof. Yuri Petrov. "Competition and cooperation: foreign entrepreneurs of German origin at Russian domestic market".
• Discussant: Prof. Riitta Hjerppe.

Session II. Banking and Financial History

Session IIa
Chair: Prof. Riitta Hjerppe

16:00-17:00
• Jaakko Autio, MA. "Financing of the agricultural sector in Finland from the 1870s to the 1930s."
• Discussant: Prof. Leonid Borodkin..

May 17, 2003

Session IIa
Chair: Prof. Riitta Hjerppe

9:30-10:30
• Academician, Prof. Boris Ananich. "On the introduction of gold standard in Russia and in Finland".
• Discussant: Dr. Antti Kuustera.

Session IIb.
Chair: Prof. Irina Potkina

10:30-11:30
• Dr. Sofia Salomatina. "Integration of Russia in the financial system of Western Europe, 1890-1917: correspondents' networks of Russian commercial banks".
• Discussant: Dr. Jaakko Autio.

11:30-12:30
• Dr. Antti Kuustera "Emergence of modern banking system in Finland from the 1870s to the 1930s".
• Discussant: Dr. Sofia Salomatina.

Session III. Labour History

Session IIIa
Chair: Dr. Mikael Korhonen

12:45-13:45
• Prof. Sakari Heikkinen. "Women's wages, men's wages: female-male wage gaps and wage-system differences in Finland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries".
• Discussant: Prof. Leonid Borodkin.

13:45-14:45
• Prof. Leonid Borodkin. "Evolution of wage differences in Soviet industry in 1920s-1930s: Between the state ideology and economic realities".
• Discussant: Prof. Sakari Heikkinen.

Session IIIb
Chair: Dr. Sofia Salomatina

15:00-16:00
• Matti Hannikainen, MA. "The formation of unemployment among construction workers in Helsinki during the Great Depression of the 1930".
• Discussant: Аndrei Volodin, MA.

16:00-17:00
• Аndrei Volodin, MA. "Russian factory inspectors (1880s-1914): mediators or workers' defenders?"
• Discussant: Matti Hannikainen, MA.