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

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Osokina, E. A. (Elena Aleksandrovna)
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Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
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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"--
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ISBN
9781501758522 (epub)
9781501758539 (pdf)
9781501758515 (hardcover)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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