English and German capitalists, English engineers and foremen, have planted within Russia the improved cotton manufactures of their mother countries; they are busy now in improving the woollen industries and the production of machinery; while Belgians have rapidly created a great iron industry in South Russia.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “English and German capitalists, English engineers and foremen, have planted within Russia the improved cotton…”
Editor's note · Context
He describes the role of foreign capitalists and engineers in developing Russian industries, emphasizing their impact on local manufacturing.
Share
More from Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
The small bicycle workshops, with the hundreds of small improvements which they introduced, have been under our very eyes the primary cells out of which the great industry of the motor cars, and later on of the aeroplanes, has grown up.
Science, down to the present day, remains permeated with Malthus’s teachings.
It is a fact that chemical manures, without organic manure, seldom prove to be sufficient.
They smile when we boast about the rotation system, having permitted us to take from the field one crop every year, or four crops each three years, because their ambition is to have six and nine crops from the very same plot of land during…

