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"--
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Ithaca [New York] :
Cornell University Press,
2021.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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


