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"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Osokina, E. A. (Elena Aleksandrovna) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Torgsin.
1917-1945
Currency question > Soviet Union.
Industrialization > Social aspects > Soviet Union.
Industrialisation > Aspect social > URSS.
HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Currency question
Economic history
Industrialization > Social aspects
Social conditions
Soviet Union > Economic conditions > 1917-1945.
Soviet Union > Social conditions > 1917-1945.
URSS > Conditions économiques > 1917-1945.
URSS > Conditions sociales > 1917-1945.
Soviet Union
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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