T.C. Owen, Capitalism and Politics in Russia ; A social history of the Moscow merchants,1855-1905. Cambridge University Press,1981,295 pp. A.J. Rieber, Merchants and Entrepreneurs in Imperial Russia. University of North Carolina Press, 1982, 464 pp. J.A.Ruckman, The Moscow Business Elite ; A social and cultural portrait of two genera-tions, 1840- 1905. Northern Illinois University Press, 1984, 275 pp.