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Kolchak's Gold

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Kolchak's Gold
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The fate of "Kolchak's gold" - a part of the gold reserve of the Russian Empire, which fell into the hands of the Whites in 1918 - is one of the most famous and exciting mysteries of Russian history of the twentieth century. Based on the materials of American, British and Russian archives historian Oleg Budnitsky managed to solve this mystery and trace the movement of the proceeds from the sale of gold, which were spent until the end of the 1950s. The point of such a historical "investigation" is not only to put an end to the protracted debate about the fate of Kolchak's gold. This story serves as a pivot on which are "strung" the problems of the history of the White Movement and its foreign financing, the relationship between the Whites and their allies, Russian "diplomacy in exile," Russian emigration, and others. Ultimately, this is another attempt to answer the key question of Russian history of the twentieth century: why the Reds won the Civil War, not the Whites. Oleg Budnitsky - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Director of the International Center for History and Sociology of the Second World War and its Consequences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, member of the European Academy; a specialist in Russian history of the second half of the 19th - 20th centuries.
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