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050 00 $aHJ1208$b.M36 2009
082 00 $a336.47/09041$222
100 1 $aMcMeekin, Sean,$d1974-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003099820
245 10 $aHistory's greatest heist :$bthe looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks /$cSean McMeekin.
260 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c[2009], ©2009.
300 $axxii, 302 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 273-285) and index.
505 00 $tA Note on Transliteration, Names, and Translation -- $tA Note on the Relative Value of Money Then and Now -- $tPrologue: The Patrimony of Imperial Russia -- $tIntroduction to Bolshevik Gold: The Nature of a Forgotten Problem -- $gI.$tThe Heist -- $g1.$tThe Banks -- $g2.$tThe People -- $g3.$tThe Gokhran -- $g4.$tThe Church -- $gII.$tCashing In -- $g5.$tBrest-Litovsk and the Diplomatic Bag -- $g6.$tBlockade -- $g7.$tStockholm -- $g8.$tLondon -- $g9.$tRapallo -- $tEpilogue: From Stockholm to Sotheby's -- $tDramatis Personae -- $tGallery follows page 92.
520 1 $a"Historians have never resolved a central mystery of the Russian Revolution: How did the Bolsheviks, despite facing a world of enemies and leaving nothing but economic ruin in their path, manage to stay in power through five long years of civil war? In this book, Sean McMeekin draws on previously undiscovered materials from the Soviet Ministry of Finance and other European and American archives to expose some of the darkest secrets of Russia's early days of communism. Building on one archival revelation after another, the author reveals how the Bolsheviks financed their aggression through astonishingly extensive thievery. Their looting included everything from the cash savings of private citizens to gold, silver, diamonds, jewelry, icons, antiques, and artwork." "By tracking illicit Soviet financial transactions across Europe, McMeekin shows how Lenin's regime accomplished history's greatest heist between 1917 and 1922 and turned centuries of accumulated wealth into the sinews of class war. McMeekin also names names, introducing for the first time the compliant bankers, lawyers, and middlemen who, for a price, helped the Bolsheviks launder their loot, impoverish Russia, and impose their brutal will on millions."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aFinance, Public$zSoviet Union$xHistory.
650 0 $aPillage$zSoviet Union$xHistory.
651 0 $aSoviet Union$xPolitics and government$y1917-1936.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125845
852 00 $bglx$hHJ1208$i.M36 2009