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Gold mining in Siberia, a big business under the Czars, ground to a halt after the Revolution. It did not get started again until 1927, when Stalin, after reading Bret Harte's novels about the California gold rush, set up a gold trust in hopes that renewed mining in Siberia would spur a mass migration to that sparsely settled area. His scheme produced no substantial population shift, but the Russians so rebuilt and expanded their mining industry that by 1938 their annual gold output was worth $183 million...
Party's Call. Russia's main mines are located near a city named Bodaybo in central Siberia, at Magadan on Siberia's east coast, and on the Chukotskiy Peninsula on the Bering Strait. Last month came reports from Russia of new strikes in Kazakhstan and Transcaucasia that promise to be richer than the combined output of the Siberian mines. The Soviets keep as closely guarded secrets the amount of their gold output and reserves, but estimates by gold experts in London and Paris place Russia's current output at $500 million to $1 billion a year...
During the St. Petersburg textile strikes of 1895, Vladimir was arrested, spent a year in jail, followed by three years' banishment to Siberia. "It is in prison," he said later, "that one becomes a real revolutionary...
...Turgenev. The honeymooners spent their time translating The Theory and Practice of Trade Unionism, by the British Socialist sages Sidney and Beatrice Webb. Of necessity, every revolutionary needed a pen name, and Vladimir chose his: Lenin, presumably from the Lena River, the longest and one of the coldest in Siberia...
...Russia's anger at China's pretensions to lead Asia and Africa mingles with immemorial fears of the invading "Golden Horde" and "the Yellow Peril." Russia's course eastward to the Pacific has collided with China's course northward to the empty spaces of Siberia. Khrushchev and all Russians must be deeply worried by the thought that in 1970, they may be living next door to hundreds of millions of hostile Chinese who by then will probably have nuclear weapons...