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Stalin's Quest for Gold : The Torgsin Hard-Currency Shops and Soviet Industrialization /

"State-run stores called Torgsin (1930-1936), which exchanged food and goods for people's heirlooms during the mass famine in the USSR, became a major means to pay the tremendous foreign debts acquired from purchasing foreign equipment and technologies"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Osokina, E. A. (Elena Aleksandrovna) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a The birth of Torgsin -- A golden idea -- The Torgsin empire -- The red directors of Torgsin: the political commissar -- Why did Stalin need Torgsin? -- Gold -- The red directors of Torgsin: the spy -- Silver -- Diamonds and platinum -- Send dollars to Torgsin! -- What's for sale? -- The buyers in the interiors -- Prices -- Soviet brothels -- Torgsin and the political police -- The seller is always right -- The red directors of Torgsin: the "SR" -- Twilight -- The sorcerer's stone: the alchemy of Soviet industrialization -- The paradox of Torgsin 
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