Gold for industrialization. Torgsin
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If you read the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov "Master and Margarita", then probably remember the scene in the capital"s store "Torgsin", located at the very end of the Arbat at the Garden Ring. In exchange for jewelry and currency, a magnificent store sold to Soviet citizens and foreigners "fat pink salmon", mitkal, chiffons and other fashionable consumer goods and delicacies. But did you know that in 1931-1935, one and a half thousand traders worked in the USSR? Gold, silver, diamonds, currency, which Soviet people brought to Torgsin, fleeing hunger, allowed the country"s leadership to buy foreign equipment for Magnitogorsk, Uralmash, Dneproe and other giants of the Soviet industry. In the interests of industrialization, Torgsin actually legalized currency prostitution, and in pursuit of gold ahead of the main Soviet exporters of grain, forest, oil, as well as the OGPU, which seized foreign exchange values among the population. The reader learns about what happened to the gold of the Russian Empire, who invented the Torgsins, how much the Ford cost, how the gold of the Spanish treasury was in the storage of the State Bank in Moscow, what was the precious crop and much more collected by Torgsin. Elena Osokina is a doctor of historical sciences, professor, author of works on socio-economic history of the 1920-1930s
Author:
Author:Osokina Elena Aleksandrovna
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Culture
- Category:Social Science & Politics
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-4448-1586-1
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