Title Stalin's quest for gold : the Torgsin hard-currency shops and Soviet industrialization / Elena A. Osokina.

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Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.

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Description	1 online resource
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
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.
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Subject	Torgsin.
	Currency question -- Soviet Union.
	Currency question.
	Soviet Union.
	Industrialization -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union.
	Industrialization -- Social aspects.
	Soviet Union -- Economic conditions -- 1917-1945.
	Economic conditions.
Chronological Term	1917-1945
Subject	Soviet Union -- Social conditions -- 1917-1945.
	Social conditions.
	HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
	Economic history.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Osokina, E. A. (Elena Aleksandrovna). Stalin's quest for gold Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021. 9781501758515 (DLC) 2020048399
Related To	Based on (work): Osokina, E. A. (Elena Aleksandrovna). Alkhimii͡a sovetskoĭ industrializat͡sii. Moskva : Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2019 9785444809525 (DLC) 2020410194 (OCoLC)1090526299
ISBN	9781501758522 (epub)
	1501758527
	9781501758539 (pdf)
	1501758535
	9781501758515 (hardcover)
	1501758519 hardcover

Title Stalin's quest for gold : the Torgsin hard-currency shops and Soviet industrialization / Elena A. Osokina.

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