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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"-- [Provided by publisher]

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

Author/Creator:

Osokina, E. A. (Elena Aleksandrovna) , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Stalin's quest for gold: the Torgsin hard-currency shops and Soviet industrialization [by Osokina, E.A.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Stalin's quest for gold [by Osokina, E.A.] (Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021 — ISBN 9781501758515; LCCN 2020048399)

Based on: Alkhimii︠a︡ sovetskoĭ industrializat︠s︡ii [by Osokina, E.A.] (Moskva : Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2019 — ISBN 9785444809525; LCCN 2020410194; OCLC Number 1090526299)

Related Series:

Cornell scholarship online

Subjects:

Torgsin

Currency question — Soviet Union

Industrialization — Social aspects — Soviet Union

Soviet Union — Economic conditions — 1917-1945

Soviet Union — Social conditions — 1917-1945

Currency question

Economic history

Industrialization — Social aspects

Social conditions

Soviet Union

1917-1945

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

HF5429.6.S65 O865 2021eb

ISBNs:

9781501758522 (epub)
1501758527
9781501758539 (pdf)
1501758535
9781501758515 (hardcover) [Invalid]
1501758519 (hardcover) [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1515/9781501758539

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2020048400

OCLC Numbers:

1204267580