Leonid Krasin and "the monopoly of foreign trade"
The article reviews the history of state monopoly of foreign trade as a fundamental of the Soviet economic policy in terms of business practice followed by L. B. Krasin who, prior to the Revolution, worked at the Russian factories of the German firm Siemens. The author concludes that the strategy of an international company’s activity aimed at forming the unified position in the market, which was worked out by Krasin in reliance on his experience as a Siemens’s employee, formed the basis of the foreign trade monopoly principle.