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010 _z 2020048399
020 _a9781501758539
020 _z9781501758522
020 _z9781501758515
020 _z9781501778940
035 _a(OCoLC)1204267580
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
100 1 _aOsokina, E. A.
_q(Elena Aleksandrovna),
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aStalin's Quest for Gold :
_bThe Torgsin Hard-Currency Shops and Soviet Industrialization /
_cElena A. Osokina.
264 1 _aIthaca [New York] :
_bCornell University Press,
_c2021.
264 3 _aBaltimore, Md. :
_bProject MUSE,
_c2021
264 4 _c©2021.
300 _a1 online resource (348 pages).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
505 0 _aThe 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
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
610 2 0 _aTorgsin.
650 7 _aSocial conditions.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01919811
650 7 _aIndustrialization
_xSocial aspects.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00971843
650 7 _aEconomic history.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00901974
650 7 _aCurrency question.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00885329
650 0 _aIndustrialization
_xSocial aspects
_zSoviet Union.
650 0 _aCurrency question
_zSoviet Union.
651 7 _aSoviet Union.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01210281
651 0 _aSoviet Union
_xSocial conditions
_y1917-1945.
651 0 _aSoviet Union
_xEconomic conditions
_y1917-1945.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/85583/
945 _aProject MUSE - 2021 Complete
945 _aProject MUSE - 2021 History
945 _aProject MUSE - 2021 Russian and East European Studies
999 _c38105
_d38105