Stalin's Quest for Gold : The Torgsin Hard-Currency Shops and Soviet Industrialization /
Osokina, E. A.
Stalin's Quest for Gold : The Torgsin Hard-Currency Shops and Soviet Industrialization / Elena A. Osokina. - 1 online resource (348 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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
Open Access
"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"--
9781501758539
Torgsin.
Social conditions.
Industrialization--Social aspects.
Economic history.
Currency question.
Industrialization--Social aspects--Soviet Union.
Currency question--Soviet Union.
Soviet Union.
Soviet Union--Social conditions--1917-1945.
Soviet Union--Economic conditions--1917-1945.
Electronic books.
Stalin's Quest for Gold : The Torgsin Hard-Currency Shops and Soviet Industrialization / Elena A. Osokina. - 1 online resource (348 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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
Open Access
"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"--
9781501758539
Torgsin.
Social conditions.
Industrialization--Social aspects.
Economic history.
Currency question.
Industrialization--Social aspects--Soviet Union.
Currency question--Soviet Union.
Soviet Union.
Soviet Union--Social conditions--1917-1945.
Soviet Union--Economic conditions--1917-1945.
Electronic books.