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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Osokina, Elena Aleksandrovna
Titre(s) : Stalin's quest for gold [Texte imprimé] : the Torgsin hard-currency shops and Soviet industrialization / Elena A. Osokina
Publication : Ithaca (N. Y.) : Cornell University Press, 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-316 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references p.297-305 and index. - Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
"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"
Sujet(s) : Question monétaire -- URSS -- 1900-1945
Industrialisation -- URSS -- 1900-1945
Conditions économiques -- URSS -- 1918-1945
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781501758522. - ISBN 1501758527. - ISBN 9781501758539. - ISBN 1501758535. -
ISBN 9781501758515 (erroné). - ISBN 1501758519 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb474436172
Notice n° :
FRBNF47443617
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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
