Nauka Publishing House, Moscow, 1968, 367 p. Circulation 2000. Price 1 rub. 50 kopecks. For a long time, one of the most important periods in the history of autocratic Russia - the era after the revolution of 1905 - 1907-remained poorly studied in Soviet historiography. Now this gap is beginning to be gradually filled. Substantial studies have emerged that are notable not only for their richly presented fresh factual material, but also for their strictly scientific approach to it1. Among them is a peer-reviewed book by K. F. Shatsillo, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Senior researcher at the Institute of History of the USSR of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. The author is mainly known for his research on the formation and development of monopolistic capital in the Russian shipbuilding industry. He is a pioneer in this field, and the book he wrote sums up to a certain extent his previous works. K. F. Shatsillo used materials from the archives of Leningrad, Moscow, Tallinn, Nikolaev, and Riga. He introduces a lot of new facts into scientific circulation that give a comprehensive idea of how and under the influence of what factors the fleet was restored after the Battle of Tsushima, the Russian shipbuilding industry arose, and how the process of monopolization took place in it. It attracts unpublished materials from central naval departments, banks, factories, and numerous personal funds. The author revealed the topic in such a way that the problem of creating a fleet turned out to be a focus in which the most important lines of Russia's foreign and domestic policy intersected between the first Russian revolution and the first World War. A wide panorama of the life of the country of those years unfolds before the reader. Along with this, K. F. Shatsillo quite naturally assigns a large place to foreign policy subjects, because the reasons for the restoration of the fleet and the pace of its accelerated construction can only be properly understood in the light of the ... Читать далее