Abstract:

Russian historiography of Ottoman and Turkish studies contains a broad range of works devoted to socio-economic development. Though financial issues in general and the Ottoman debt problem in particular were subject of turkological interest of Russian scholars, they lacked specialized studies on it, being a part of the large scope of socio-economic works. However, due to the concern to the Ottoman relations with European Powers in the XIX – beginning of the XXth centuries the Ottoman debt during the Ottoman epoch has been studied rather well. In comparison, the field of the Ottoman debt during the Turkish Republic has been relatively undeveloped. This article aims at historiographical analysis of the Ottoman debt problem in Russian Turkological studies of the XX century. It reveals different approaches to the subject under research, marks some academic disagreement on particular matters but in general demonstrates currency of the debt problem.

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