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Overview""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""-- Full Product DetailsAuthor: Elena OsokinaPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781501778940ISBN 10: 1501778943 Pages: 348 Publication Date: 15 November 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsIntroduction: An Accidental Finding Part I: Small Bureau to Trade Empire 1. The Birth of Torgsin 2. A Golden Idea 3. The Torgsin Empire 4. The Red Directors of Torgsin: The Political Commissar 5. Why Did Stalin Need Torgsin? Part II: People's Treasures 6. Gold 7. The Red Directors of Torgsin: The Intelligence Agent 8. Silver 9. Diamonds and Platinum 10. Send Dollars to Torgsin! Part III: Everyday Life in Torgsin 11. What's for Sale? 12. The Patrons 13. Prices 14. Soviet Brothels 15. Torgsin and the Political Police 16. The Seller Is Always Right Part IV: Torgsin's Swan Song 17. The Red Directors of Torgsin: The Socialist Revolutionary 18. Twilight 19. The Sorcerer's Stone: The Alchemy of Soviet Industrialization Instead of a Conclusion: The Paradoxes of TorgsinReviewsOsokina's narrative is a deeply researched, engagingly written institutional history of Torgsin, with crucial macro-economic calculations and statistics, as well as insightful details about Soviet life in the 1930s. * HISTORY: Reviews of New Books * A fascinating book to read. All of its richly researched topics, from relations between Torgsin and the state security apparatus to interior design offer intriguing insights into the relationship between plan and market, state and society, practice and ideology. Elena Osokina is an eloquent storyteller and a thoughtful commentator, expertly mediating between individual stories and larger historical—and historiographic—questions. [Reviewing the Russian edition.] * Slavic Review * Elena Osokina's analysis of a key Soviet business affords a fascinating angle on diverse aspects of Soviet life. Soviet historians have traditionally focused on collectivization as the regime's solution to the urgent need for hard currency but Osokina draws attention to Torgsin as a still more important source and emphasizes the extent to which famine was the engine of the company's growth. A richly rewarding book. [Reviewing the Russian edition.] * Kritika * Elena Osokina's book is unique in its genre. It sheds new light on the history of the Soviet economy and the industrialization of the USSR. * Franz Steiner Verlag Journals * Osokina explored several archives and a large literature in order to reconstruct the history of this un-Bolshevik understanding in the workers paradise. Her book is all the more valuable since it provides a glimpse into the social practices, which appeared in the shadow of the Torgsin. * Recensio.net * Author InformationElena Osokina is Professor of Russian History at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of books in Russian, Italian, Chinese and, in English, Our Daily Bread. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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