ABSTRACT
The history of List’s reception in Russia resembles the history of Russia itself. It went through great changes following radical reforms not only in Russian foreign trade policy but also in the Russian economic and political systems. One of the first Russian reactions to List was that of Stepan Maslov, the founder of the Imperial Moscow Agricultural Society and the editor of Agricultural Journal. The most outspoken Listian in Russia was beyond any doubt Sergey Witte, railway engineer and administrator, subsequently the minister of finance and the prime minister of Russia. Being the minister of finance, Sergey Witte was also responsible for the economic education of the Tsar’s brother Grand Duke Mikhail, the heir to the Russian throne before the birth of Prince Alexey. The Soviet publications about List could be interesting not only as manifestations of the Soviet reception of List, but as examples of the Soviet quasi-scientific discipline called the “Critique of bourgeois economic thought.”.
