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The Grand Duke Nikolai,* the Grand Duke Cyril,* Prince Felix Youssoupov, and other pre-eminent Russian emigres well know where to find many a gem and golden ruble buried and hidden by themselves before they fled Russia. Recently Prince Dolgorukovo, relatively small aristocratic fry, entered Russia in disguise to retrieve...
Internal Soviet Economics. Institutions of a "capitalistic" nature are slowly being reintroduced into Russia. An example in point is money. Up to 1921, the Soviet authorities continuously debased the ruble by inflation until it all but vanished, with the avowed intention of employing thereafter a system of communal barter into...
Prices. Proceeding to a bank, the U. S. traveler finds that he can get a shade less than two rubles for a dollar. For one ruble he can get a passable table d'hôte dinner. For eight kopecks (four cents), he can ride on a new or...
"Look here; would you light three cigarettes on one match? No, of course you wouldn't. Or plan a party of thirteen? I doubt it. Or change your crew trunks before a race? No, even if the doctor advised it. Well, it's the same way with shaving before an...
Present production total is now 45% of the pre-War figure?an increase from 15% in 1920; production of pig iron has increased from 7,000,000 pounds in 1921 to 35,000,000 in 1923-4; oil production leaves a large surplus for export; coal production is entirely satisfactory...