Stalin's Quest for Gold

Introduction: 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 Torgsin

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• História económica
• Estruturas políticas: totalitarismo e ditadura
• História da Europa

Gold for Soviet industrialization; Soviet economy of the 1930s; People's strategies of survival in the USSR; 1930s; Mass famine of 1932-1933; stalinism; Torgsin