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The State Bank of the USSR
Article from the website of the Bank of Russia on the monetary policy of the State Bank of the USSR in the Soviet Union.
English original - pdf 6 pages

As good as gold? - Barnett,Vincent
A note on the chervonets - a gold-backed currency which replaced the rou-ble during the New Economic Policy in the Soviet Union, and of which Bul-gakov wondered whether "it was real money or a stage prop".
English original - pdf 8 pages

Russian Collectivization - Beers, George
Beers argues that collectivization in the Soviet Union did not lead to agri-cultural production but rather to a famine that killed millions and the terror unnecessarily imposed on the Kulaks.
English original - pdf 6 pages

The Bullitt Mission to Russia - Bullit, William C.
Testimony before the Committee on Foreign Relations United States Se-nate of William C. Bullitt on September 12, 1919. Two days later the United States would close down the American Embassy in Moscow. Much later, in 1933, William C. Bullitt was installed as the new U.S. ambassador in Mos-cow.
English original - pdf 96 pages

What Is To Be Done? - Vladimir Lenin
Lenin's pamphlet from 1902 on what needs to be done to organize a communist society. This English translation has some differences with the Dutch translation, which you can also find in the archives.
English translation - pdf 107 pages

I Speak For The Silent - Tsjernavin, Vladimir Vjatsjeslavovitsj
The subtitle of this book is Prisoners of the Soviets. Professor Vladimir Chernavin, a contemporary of Bulgakov, succeeded in escaping with his wife and his son from a camp and published his memoirs. He relates the interrogations by the GPU and the treatment of the prisoners in the camps. His wife published her memoirs under the title Escape from the Gulag where she describes the prisons for women in the USSR.
English original - pdf 398 pages

The Samizdat Archipelago - Eichwede, Wolfgang
Eichwede explains that samizdat was not possible under totalitarianism, but only started when society was under pressure to modernize and the power of the government was decreasing.
English original - pdf 12 pages

A dangerous occupation - Medvedev, Zhores
Early life and education in Soviet Russia during the second world war and immediate post-war years, and the influence of Trofim Lysenko on Soviet science. This essay was published in the Mill Hill Essays 2010.
English original - pdf 11 pages

Between right and left - Oppenheim, Samuel A.
Samuel Oppenheim writes about Grigorii Yakovlevich Sokolnikov and the development of the Soviet state between 1921 and 1929, looking forward and backward.
English original - pdf 23 pages

The Official and the Unofficial in Soviet culture 1950-80 - Savitsky, Stanislav
Savitsky studies the concepts "official" and "non official" and shows the re-lation of both using the novel Pushkin's House by Andrei Bitov from 1978.
English original - pdf 9 pages

Chervontsi or roubles - does it matter? - Vanhellemont, Jan
In The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov used several times the word chervonets. According to Jan Vanhellemont it’s a pity that the English, French and Dutch translators of Bulgakov’s masterpiece translated this word as ten-rouble bill. He argues that, by doing so, they missed a part of Bulgakov's satire on the subject of money in the Soviet Union era.
English original - pdf 6 pages


French

La production des biens culturels en URSS - Kiriya, Ilya
Kyriya explains in this article that the Soviet culture answered a main need: the ideological need. However, the organization of this culture required to be industrial in order to attain a maximum of consumers and by doing so, to reinforce the Soviet ideology.
French original - pdf 11 pages


Dutch

Wat te doen? - Vladimir Lenin
Lenin's pamphlet from 1902 on what needs to be done to organize a communist society. This Dutch translation has some differences with the English translation, which you can also find in the archives.
Dutch translation - pdf 120 pages



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