Zheleznov V.Ya. Essays on Political Economy (Ocherki politicheskoy ekonomii), 1912. In Russian

[Прижизненное издание] Железнов В.Я.
Очерки политической экономии.
Серия: Библиотека для самообразования, выпуск XXV.
Седьмое издание, значительно переработанное и дополненное.
Москва: Тип. Т-ва И.Д. Сытина, 1912.
XXVIII, 1204 с.; обычный формат. В коленкоровом издательском переплёте.
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[Lifetime edition] Zheleznov V.Ya.
Essays on Political Economy (Ocherki politicheskoy ekonomii).
Series: Library for Self-Education, issue XXV.
Seventh edition, significantly revised and supplemented.
Moscow: Printing House of the Partnership of I.D. Sytin, 1912.
XXVIII, 1204 pp.; regular format. In publisher’s calico binding.

This substantial 1912 lifetime edition (7th, heavily revised) by Vladimir Yakovlevich Zheleznov (1869–1933), a prominent Russian liberal economist, professor at Kyiv University and later Moscow Agricultural Institute, as well as a key figure in Soviet economic institutions (Narkomfin USSR, Institute of Economic Research), presents political economy through seventeen lectures. A classic of pre-revolutionary Russian economic thought, the book offers an empirical, concept-light overview typical of the era — lacking a unified theory but rich in practical examples from contemporary Russian economic life (industry, agriculture, finance, trade). Notably eclectic, Zheleznov leans toward liberal views overall but adopts near-Marxist tones when discussing capitalist profit and exploitation. Published in the popular self-education series by the renowned Sytin printing house, this thick volume (over 1200 pages) remains a valuable historical source on early 20th-century Russian economic ideas, bridging classical liberalism and emerging socialist critiques. Desirable for collectors of pre-1917 Russian economics, antiquarian textbooks, and intellectual history of the late Empire period.