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Stalin s Quest for Gold
Author | : Elena Osokina |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-11-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1501778943 |
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Stalin's Quest for Gold tells the story of Torgsin, a chain of retail shops established in 1930 with the aim of raising the hard currency needed to finance the USSR's ambitious industrialization program. At a time of desperate scarcity, Torgsin had access to the country's best foodstuffs and goods. Initially, only foreigners were allowed to shop in Torgsin, but the acute demand for hard-currency revenues forced Stalin to open Torgsin to Soviet citizens who could exchange tsarist gold coins and objects made of precious metals and gemstones, as well as foreign monies, for foods and goods in its shops. Through her analysis of the large-scale, state-run entrepreneurship represented by Torgsin, Elena Osokina highlights the complexity and contradictions of Stalinism. Driven by the state's hunger for gold and the people's starvation, Torgsin rejected Marxist postulates of the socialist political economy: the notorious class approach and the state hard-currency monopoly. In its pursuit for gold, Torgsin advertised in the capitalist West, encouraging foreigners to purchase goods for their relatives in the USSR; and its seaport shops and restaurants operated semilegally as brothels, inducing foreign sailors to spend hard currency for Soviet industrialization. Examining Torgsin from multiple perspectives--economic expediency, state and police surveillance, consumerism, even interior design and personnel--Stalin's Quest for Gold radically transforms the stereotypical view of the Soviet economy and enriches our understanding of everyday life in Stalin's Russia.
Treasure Hunters Quest for the City of Gold
Author | : James Patterson |
Publsiher | : jimmy patterson |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2018-01-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780316463898 |
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Gear up for an exciting adventure with the thrill-seeking Kidds as they search for a missing Incan city in South America made entirely of gold! When Bick and Beck Kidd find a hidden trove of pirate treasure, it includes a map with clues to an even bigger score: the lost Incan city of Paititi. But treasure hunting is never easy—and when the map is stolen, the Kidds must rely on Storm's picture-perfect memory to navigate the dangerous Amazon jungle. Watch out for that nest of poisonous snakes! To save the Amazon rainforest and stop a Peruvian tribe from losing their home, the Kidds must unlock the secrets to the missing map and find the fabled city of Paititi . . . before the bad guys find it first. The race is on!
Quest for Gold
Author | : Ryan Fleming |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2019-12-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 161179353X |
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The Golden Age of Piracy The mighty British Empire held to ransom by a rabble of thieves. Until the noose and cannon snuffed them out, they held the world at their mercy. This is a story of one of those tales.
Quest for the Lost City of Gold
Author | : Stephen Biesty,Samone Bos |
Publsiher | : Dk Pub |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0756634369 |
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A series of postcards introduces young readers to cross-sectional illustrations of such famous building as the Parthenon, the Colosseum, Hagia Sophia, Notre Dame, and the Empire State Building, all of which provide cryptic clues about a Lost City of Gold.
Quest for the Pillar of Gold
Author | : George H. Billingsley,Earle E. Spamer,Dove Menkes |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105020247909 |
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Quest for Gold
Author | : Mike Wattone |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 103 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Coolgardie (W.A.) |
ISBN | : 094973103X |
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Quest for the Gold Plates
Author | : Stan Larson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105023606762 |
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Anyone interested in Book of Mormon archaeology will be fascinated by the amazing story of Thomas Stuart Ferguson. The reader accompanies Ferguson on his exploratory journeys to Mexico and Guatemala in search of the remains of Book of Mormon peoples, assisted through generous funding by the LDS church. He became a closet doubter but made peace with himself and his community without promulgating disbelief.
The Quest for Gold
Author | : Becky M. Saleeby |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Alaska |
ISBN | : MINN:31951P00757829H |
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