I am a university lecturer at the University of Helsinki (Finland) and a professor (on leave) at the New Economic School (Moscow, Russia). I study the economic history of Russia, Eastern Europe, and North Eurasia. The development of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union in the 18th – 20th centuries is at the center of my research. I focus on the interconnections between institutions and economic growth, the political economy of state socialism, and the long-run consequences of history. I have published in international refereed journals including American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Development Economics, and Journal of Public Economics. The paper on Russian national income in 1913-1928 was awarded to Russian National prize in applied economics in 2011. I was a Marie Curie Research fellow at the University of Warwick in 2005–2007 and a national research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford in 2014–2015.
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Research
Working projects
"Did Industrialization Increase Support for the Radical Left? Evidence from the 1917 Russian Revolution," with Paul Castañeda Dower. Revision requested by the Journal of Comparative Economics.
"A Regional Perspective on the Economic Development of the late Russian Empire".
"The Political Legacy of the Gulag Archipelago," with Natalia Kapelko.
"Social Mobility and Persistence of Elites in Times of Regime Change:
Evidence from the 1917 Russian Revolution," with Tom Eeckhout and Koen Schoors.
"Did Schumpeter Meet Solow in Moscow and Berlin? Firm Dynamics under the Iron Curtain," with Ufuk Akcigit, Richard Brauer, Javier Miranda, and Anna Zherdeva.
"Soviet Industrialization and American Skilled Labor: Transfer of Technologies and Productivity," with Torsten Santavirta.
"Control through Empowerment: Evidence from Nation-Building in Soviet Central Asia," with Paul Castañeda Dower and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya.
"American Relief and the Soviet Famine of 1921-22," with Volha Charnysh and Natalya Naumenko.
"A Regional Perspective on the Economic Development of the late Russian Empire".
"The Political Legacy of the Gulag Archipelago," with Natalia Kapelko.
"Social Mobility and Persistence of Elites in Times of Regime Change:
Evidence from the 1917 Russian Revolution," with Tom Eeckhout and Koen Schoors.
"Did Schumpeter Meet Solow in Moscow and Berlin? Firm Dynamics under the Iron Curtain," with Ufuk Akcigit, Richard Brauer, Javier Miranda, and Anna Zherdeva.
"Soviet Industrialization and American Skilled Labor: Transfer of Technologies and Productivity," with Torsten Santavirta.
"Control through Empowerment: Evidence from Nation-Building in Soviet Central Asia," with Paul Castañeda Dower and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya.
"American Relief and the Soviet Famine of 1921-22," with Volha Charnysh and Natalya Naumenko.
Recently published
"The Causes of Ukrainian Famine Mortality, 1932–33," with Natalya Naumenko and Nancy Qian. Revision. The Review of Economic Studies, 2024, rdae091.
"New Russian Economic History," with Ekaterina Zhuravskaya and Sergei Guriev. The Journal of Economic Literature, 2024, 62(1), 47–114.
"The Value of a Statistical Life in a Dictatorship: Evidence from Stalin", with Paul Castañeda Dower and Shlomo Weber. European Economic Review. 2021, 133.
"The Stolypin Reform and Agricultural Productivity in Late Imperial Russia," with Paul Castañeda Dower. European Review of Economic History. 2019, 23(3): 241–267.
"Economic Effects of the Abolition of Serfdom: Evidence from the Russian Empire," with Ekaterina Zhuravskaya. The American Economic Review, 2018, 108(4–5): 1074–1117.
"Labor Misallocation and Mass Mobilization: Russian Agriculture during the Great War," with Paul Castaneda Dower. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100(2): 245–59.
"Continental Europe, 1700–1870: Core and Periphery", with Giovanni Federico. In Stephen Broadberry and Kyoji Fukao (Eds.) The Cambridge Economic History of the Modern World. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
"Economic Policy under State Socialism, 1945–1989", with Tamas Vonyo. In Morys, M. (Ed.) Economic History of Central, East and South-East Europe: 1800 to the Present. Routledge, 2020.
"Economic growth and structural developments, 1945–1989", with Tamas Vonyo. In Morys, M. (Ed.) Economic History of Central, East and South-East Europe: 1800 to the Present. Routledge, 2020.
"Russia's Home Front, 1914–1922: The Economy," with Mark Harrison. A chapter for multi-volumes project McDonald, D., Steinberg, J., and Heywood, A. (Eds.) Russia's Great War and Revolution, 1914–1922: the Centennial Reappraisal. Slavica, 2018.
"New Russian Economic History," with Ekaterina Zhuravskaya and Sergei Guriev. The Journal of Economic Literature, 2024, 62(1), 47–114.
"The Value of a Statistical Life in a Dictatorship: Evidence from Stalin", with Paul Castañeda Dower and Shlomo Weber. European Economic Review. 2021, 133.
"The Stolypin Reform and Agricultural Productivity in Late Imperial Russia," with Paul Castañeda Dower. European Review of Economic History. 2019, 23(3): 241–267.
"Economic Effects of the Abolition of Serfdom: Evidence from the Russian Empire," with Ekaterina Zhuravskaya. The American Economic Review, 2018, 108(4–5): 1074–1117.
"Labor Misallocation and Mass Mobilization: Russian Agriculture during the Great War," with Paul Castaneda Dower. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100(2): 245–59.
"Continental Europe, 1700–1870: Core and Periphery", with Giovanni Federico. In Stephen Broadberry and Kyoji Fukao (Eds.) The Cambridge Economic History of the Modern World. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
"Economic Policy under State Socialism, 1945–1989", with Tamas Vonyo. In Morys, M. (Ed.) Economic History of Central, East and South-East Europe: 1800 to the Present. Routledge, 2020.
"Economic growth and structural developments, 1945–1989", with Tamas Vonyo. In Morys, M. (Ed.) Economic History of Central, East and South-East Europe: 1800 to the Present. Routledge, 2020.
"Russia's Home Front, 1914–1922: The Economy," with Mark Harrison. A chapter for multi-volumes project McDonald, D., Steinberg, J., and Heywood, A. (Eds.) Russia's Great War and Revolution, 1914–1922: the Centennial Reappraisal. Slavica, 2018.
Data
This repository brings together data extracted from various published and unpublished sources. Its principal focus is Russian economic and social history of the last three centuries (18th-21st). Data are gathered along seven principal lines of inquiry: population, labour, industrial output, agricultural output, services, capital, land. There are five cross-sections of Russian history: 1795, 1858, 1897, 1959, 2002. Data are available online for all interested users
Contacts
Unit of Social and Economic History, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki
PO 54 (Snellmaninkatu 14 A) 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
andrei.markevich@helsinki.fi
amarkevich@nes.ru
PO 54 (Snellmaninkatu 14 A) 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
andrei.markevich@helsinki.fi
amarkevich@nes.ru
