Stalin's Quest for Gold: The Torgsin Hard-Currency Shops and Soviet Industrialization
Elena Osokina
How Stalin's regime paid for industrialization by trading food for the gold, silver and dollars of hungry citizens during the famine years. Based on archives opened after 1991.
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