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

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"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.
Temas:
Torgsin.
Social conditions.
Industrialization > Social aspects.
Economic history.
Currency question.
Industrialization > Social aspects > Soviet Union.
Currency question > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Social conditions > 1917-1945.
Soviet Union > Economic conditions > 1917-1945.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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