Riga's 1913 City Election
A Study in Baltic Urban Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3951990 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael F Hamm (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 442 |
| Publication date | 1980-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Russian Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-0341 • E-ISSN: 1467-9434 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/128811 |
| OpenAlex | W2312903965 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
On the eve of the Great Reforms in the 1860s, only four Russian cities-Moscow, St. Petersburg, Odessa, and Warsaw-had more than 100,000 inhabitants. Six other cities-Riga, with 70,463 people in 1857, Kishinev, Kiev, Saratov, Kazan, and Tula-had populations greater than 50,000. By 1913, there were about three dozen cities with more than 100,000 people in the Empire, and Riga, with 481,950 residents, ranked sixth.' An important commercial nexus, the city had grown rapidly as railway construction linked her port with Russia's interior. The first railway-to Diinaburg (later Dvinsk, now Daugavpils)-was opened in 1861 and within a decade was extended to Orel, Tsaritsyn, and the Volga granary. In 1889, a line to Pskov was opened, giving Riga a rail connection to St. Petersburg. Between 1860 and 1910 the value of Russia's foreign trade increased by more than six times, and Riga benefitted accordingly. By the turn of the century it became Russia's leading export center and ranked second to St. Petersburg in imports. Table 1 compares the volume of Riga's exports and imports with that of St. Petersburg and Odessa.2 Overall, Riga's share of the Empire's foreign trade reached 11 percent by 1900, 17 percent by 1913.3
Geography · Political science · Politics · Law · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2025 (45) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |