Historical science in the USSR. Reviews: J. S. GROSUL, I. G. BUDAK. ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY OF BESSARABIA (1861-1905) Author: L. G. BESKROVNY, A. A. SHEVYAKOV Chisinau. "Kartya Moldovenyaskaia". 1972. 604 pp. The print run is 1000. Price 2 rubles. 94 kopecks. Joint research by corresponding members Academy of Sciences of the USSR Ya. S. Grosula and akad. I. G. Budaka, Academy of Sciences of the Moldavian SSR, is devoted to the analysis of deep processes of economic and socio-political development of Bessarabia. The reviewed work is a continuation of their earlier monograph on the same topic, which covers the period from the annexation of the region to Russia in 1812 to the bourgeois reforms of the 60s-70s of the XIX century .1 The period considered in the book is characterized by a variety of social and political processes. The authors set themselves the task to study the main patterns of socio-economic development of pre-revolutionary Bessarabia, to reveal in this regard the progressive significance of its entry into the multinational Russian state. The importance of studying the social and economic processes that took place here in the second half of the 19th century is due to the fact that this period lay, as V. I. Lenin pointed out, between two turning points in Russian history, between the reform of 1861 and the revolution of 1905 . 2 A thorough analysis of the development of capitalist relations in Bessarabia allowed the authors to social and political transformations in the region. While tracing the general patterns of capitalist development in Bessarabia, the authors also tried (and largely succeeded) to show their specific features. The monograph uses a huge amount of factual material drawn from 47 collections of the state archives of Moscow, Leningrad, Chisinau, Kiev, Odessa, as well as from the State Historical Archive of Romania. Published sources (codes of laws, statistical collections, official reports, periodicals) and monograph ... Read more