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Stalin's quest for gold : the Torgsin hard-currency shops and Soviet industrialization / Elena A. Osokina

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Cornell scholarship onlinePublisher: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:
  • 9781501758522
  • 9781501758539
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781501758515. | Erscheint auch als: Stalin's quest for gold. Druck-Ausgabe Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021DDC classification:
  • 381/.14 23
LOC classification:
  • HF5429.6.S65
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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
Summary: "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"--Other relationships: Weitere Beziehungen:
  • Based on (work): Osokina, E. A. (Elena Aleksandrovna). Alkhimii︠a︡ sovetskoĭ industrializat︠s︡ii. Moskva : Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2019
PPN: PPN: 1919910794Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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