Ooops. Stalin. Anyway, remember the Great Famine in Russia? You already know this. Stalin outlawed private enterprise and made everyone go live out on agricultural collectives and grow wheat so he could sell it in world markets and use the money to industrialize Russia.
Haile Selassi became emperor of Ethiopia. Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Mussolini, Gandhi . . . . I think it's a little more complicated than the Federal Reserve and the Gold Standard. I haven't really started looking deeply enough to talk about it except superficially, I just don't have time to get into it right now. The world economy was shifting like land in Southern California. Connections were broken. The sun was setting on the British Empire. Socialism was spreading.
I ran across a data set an historian is making her life's work, for international trade between two countries. She's got all the major countries done and now she's working on the minor countries, and as she develops it, she posts it. I need to get special software to read it, though. Now that's real historical analysis. |
