title: The Gold Factor and Soviet Gold Industry during the Stalin Epoch
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metadata.value: Grebenyuk, Pavel S.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2019-10-25T14:49:53Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2019-10-25T14:49:53Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Grebenyuk P. S. The Gold Factor and Soviet Gold Industry during the Stalin Epoch. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2019, vol. 64, iss. 3, рp. 890–912.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2019.305
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16426
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article analyzes publications and archive materials pertaining to gold mining in the context
  of the development of the Soviet gold industry in the 1920s — early 1950s, and demonstrates
  the significance of gold as a factor of the state policy. The author highlights the stages of development
  of the Soviet gold industry: the period of 1923–1930 was characterized by exclusive
  benefits provided to gold industry enterprises, and permissible private capital; the period of
  1931–1945 was associated with the existence of ordinary and extraordinary sectors expressed
  in the activities of the two major organizations — Glavzoloto/Glavspetsmet and Dalstroy; in
  1946–1953, the entire gold industry of the country was functioning under the jurisdiction of
  the Soviet Interior Ministry on the basis of labor mobilization of convicts. Gold was mostly
  produced by two entities: Glavzoloto/Glavspetsmet and Dalstroy mined 2,029.4 tonnes of gold
  in 1931–1950, including 1,116.2 tonnes (approximately 55 %) produced by Glavzoloto, and
  913.2 tonnes (roughly 45 %) by Dalstroy. Gold was one of the few commodities which was
  always in demand on the global market and used in case of national emergencies and crises to
  correct foreign trade deficit, to guarantee foreign loans, and to procure goods which the Soviet
  Union was either unable to make or could not afford the cost of their production. The development
  of the Soviet gold industry was not determined by the estimation of loss and revenue;
  it was effected by the decisions made by the national governments in the late 1920s — early
  1930s based on the belief in the absolute significance of gold for the functioning of Western
  economies.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 64; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: gold
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the gold industry
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet gold mining
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: gold export
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: gold reserves
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USSR
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Glavzoloto
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Glavspetsmet
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Dalstroy
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet Interior Ministry
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Gold Factor and Soviet Gold Industry during the Stalin Epoch
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metadata.value: Article
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