Download or read book Stalin s Quest for Gold written by Elena Osokina and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book In Quest of Gold written by Alfred St. Johnston and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: In Quest of Gold by Alfred St. Johnston
Download or read book Treasure Hunters Quest for the City of Gold written by James Patterson and published by jimmy patterson. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gear up for an exciting adventure with the thrill-seeking Kidds as they search for a missing Incan city in South America made entirely of gold! When Bick and Beck Kidd find a hidden trove of pirate treasure, it includes a map with clues to an even bigger score: the lost Incan city of Paititi. But treasure hunting is never easy—and when the map is stolen, the Kidds must rely on Storm's picture-perfect memory to navigate the dangerous Amazon jungle. Watch out for that nest of poisonous snakes! To save the Amazon rainforest and stop a Peruvian tribe from losing their home, the Kidds must unlock the secrets to the missing map and find the fabled city of Paititi . . . before the bad guys find it first. The race is on!
Download or read book Quest for the Lost City of Gold written by Stephen Biesty and published by Dk Pub. This book was released on 2008 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of postcards introduces young readers to cross-sectional illustrations of such famous building as the Parthenon, the Colosseum, Hagia Sophia, Notre Dame, and the Empire State Building, all of which provide cryptic clues about a Lost City of Gold.
Download or read book In Quest of Gold written by Charles Edward Knowles and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Quest of Gold written by Carol Bender and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS STORY IS retold from the diary of Jacob P. Prickett. When he was editor of the newspaper back in the late 1800s he wrote the story in a series of serials and then compiled them together and pasted them into a book. The book was handed down in the family from generation to generation and tells a wonderful story about his trip, as a young boy of 17, when he joined on with a wagon train going west to the Gold Rush. More than gold he was seeking excitement and adventure and he certainly found plenty of both. His other goal was to find his older brother who was already in California.
Download or read book Quest for the Pillar of Gold written by George H. Billingsley and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book In Quest of Gold written by Jim Ryun and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1984-09-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the athletic career of the U.S. runner, Jim Ryun, and describe the importance of Christian faith in his life
Download or read book Quest for the West written by Peter Kent and published by Wayland. This book was released on 1997 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1849 the impoverished Hornik family decides to leave Bohemia and emigrate to California in search of gold.
Download or read book Hands of Gold written by Roni Robbins and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hands of Gold, loosely based on real events, follows Jewish Sam on a journey that takes him from war-torn Europe at the turn of the 20th century, through the Great Depression and labor union reforms in America.
Download or read book In Quest of Gold Or Under the Whanga Falls written by Alfred St. Johnston and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Quest of Gold; Or, Under the Whanga Falls is an adventure story by Alfred St. Johnston. Excerpt: "As he passed the bachelors' hut on his way to the paddock, he noticed that one of the hands, a man named Keggs, whom they had only engaged a short time before, was leaning against the door-post smoking a short black pipe. He was not a prepossessing person, for his face, which was of an unwholesome pink, was deeply marked with small-pox, and his pale-coloured shifty eyes were inflamed-looking and unshaded by any eye-lashes."
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Download or read book Quest for Gold written by Mike Wattone and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book In Quest of Gold Being a Romance Dealing with the Remarkable Expedition written by Illustrated By Howard Ma Edward Knowles and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-02-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
