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Summary
Author Biography
Sean McMeekin is assistant professor of international relations, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. He is the author of The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willy Münzenberg, Moscow’s Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West, published by Yale University Press. He lives in Ankara.
Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations | |
A Note on Transliteration, Names, and Translation | |
A Note on the Relative Value of Money Then and Now | |
Prologue: The Patrimony of Imperial Russia | |
Introduction to Bolshevik Gold: The Nature of a Forgotten Problem | p. 1 |
The Heist | p. 9 |
The Banks | p. 11 |
The People | p. 35 |
The Gokhran | p. 54 |
The Church | p. 73 |
Cashing In | p. 93 |
Brest-Litovsk and the Diplomatic Bag | p. 95 |
Blockade | p. 117 |
Stockholm | p. 137 |
London | p. 168 |
Rapallo | p. 199 |
Epilogue: From Stockholm to Sotheby's | p. 216 |
Dramatis Personae | p. 223 |
Notes | p. 233 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 273 |
Acknowledgments | p. 286 |
Index | p. 291 |
Gallery follows page 92 | |
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