The Gold Famine
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Author | : Elena Osokina |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2021-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501758527 |
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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.
Author | : Guido Alfani |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2017-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107179939 |
Download Famine in European History Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The first systematic study of famine in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages to present. It compares the characteristics, consequences and causes of famine in regional case studies by leading experts to form a comprehensive picture of when and why food security across the continent became a critical issue.
Author | : Cormac Ó Gráda |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780691122373 |
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Author | : Francis Griffith Newlands |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Silver question |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Guido Alfani |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2017-08-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316844978 |
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This is the first systematic study of famine in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages until the present. In case studies ranging from Scandinavia and Italy to Ireland and Russia, leading scholars compare the characteristics, consequences and causes of famine. The famines they describe differ greatly in size, duration and context; in many cases the damage wrought by poor harvests was confounded by war. The roles of human action, malfunctioning markets and poor relief are a recurring theme. The chapters also take full account of demographic, institutional, economic, social and cultural aspects, providing a wealth of new information which is organized and analyzed within a comparative framework. Famine in European History represents a significant new contribution to demographic history, and will be of interest to all those who want to discover more about famines - truly horrific events which, for centuries, have been a recurring curse for the Europeans.
Author | : Brooks Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Currency question |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sarah Cameron |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2018-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501730452 |
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The Hungry Steppe examines one of the most heinous crimes of the Stalinist regime: the Kazakh famine of 1930–33. More than 1.5 million people, a quarter of Kazakhstan's population, perished. Yet the story of this famine has remained mostly hidden from view. Sarah Cameron reveals this brutal story and its devastating consequences for Kazakh society. Through extremely violent means, the Kazakh famine created Soviet Kazakhstan, a stable territory with clear boundaries that was an integral part of the Soviet economy; and it forged a new Kazakh national identity. But ultimately, Cameron finds, neither Kazakhstan nor Kazakhs themselves integrated into Soviet society the way Moscow intended. The experience of the famine scarred the republic and shaped its transformation into an independent nation in 1991. Cameron examines the Kazakh famine to overturn several assumptions about violence, modernization, and nation-making under Stalin, highlighting the creation of a new Kazakh national identity and how environmental factors shaped Soviet development. Ultimately, The Hungry Steppe depicts the Soviet regime and its disastrous policies in a new and unusual light.
Author | : Julian Cribb |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0520271238 |
Download The Coming Famine Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Lays out a picture of impending planetary crisis - a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century - that would dwarf any in our previous experience. This book describes a dangerous confluence of shortages - of water, land, energy, technology, and knowledge - combined with the increased demand created by population and economic growth
Author | : Michael Turner |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2002-04-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521890946 |
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After the Famine examines the recovery in Irish agriculture in the wake of the disastrous potato famine of the 1840s, and presents an annual agricultural output series for Ireland from 1850 to 1914. Michael Turner's detailed 1996 study is in three parts: he analyses the changing structure of agriculture in terms of land use and peasant occupancy; he presents estimates of the annual value of Irish output between 1850 and 1914; and he assesses Irish agricultural performance in terms of several measures of productivity. These analyses are placed in the context of British and European agricultural development, and suggest that, contrary to prevailing orthodoxies, landlords rather than tenants were the main beneficiaries in the period leading up to the land reforms. After the Famine is an important contribution to an extremely controversial area of Irish social and economic history.
Author | : James Augustus Hall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Alaska |
ISBN | : |
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An account of the author's experiences while lost on Seward peninsula, Alaska, July-September, 1900.