TY  - BOOK
AU  - Osokina,E.A.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Stalin's Quest for Gold : : The Torgsin Hard-Currency Shops and Soviet Industrialization / 
SN  - 9781501758539
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Ithaca [New York]
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Torgsin
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - fast
KW  - Industrialization
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Currency question
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - 1917-1945
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/85583/
ER  -