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dc.contributor.authorLundesgaard, Jon
dc.contributor.authorTevlina, Victoria V.
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-03T09:48:05Z
dc.date.available2018-07-03T09:48:05Z
dc.date.issued2017-05-03
dc.description.abstractAfter the Russian Revolution, with civil war and interventions, war communism (1918–1921) led to a period of great economic difficulties in Russia. The New Economic Policy was the solution, and concessions offered to Western business interests were a part of it. In the timber industry of the 1920s, the jointly Western and Soviet controlled company Russnorvegoles was an important concession. The majority of the Western interests were Norwegian, and the company was registered as a Norwegian limited liability company with seat in Oslo. The four-and-a-half-year history, involving Western interests in the operations of Russnorvegoles, is both interesting and dramatic. Profitability was undermined, and intricate currency arrangements played a significant role during the last eighteen months in which Western interests were involved. The prominent Norwegian fascist politicians Quisling and Prytz were both involved, and the latter emerged a wealthy man. Living on his means for some years following 1928, he contributed financially to the formation in 1933 of a Norwegian Nazi party (Nasjonal Samling/National Reunion). This dimension of Norwegian political history demonstrates the role that Russnorvegoles played beyond the timber industry.en_US
dc.descriptionThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Acta Borealia on 3 May 2017, available online: <a href=http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/08003831.2017.1317978> http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/08003831.2017.1317978</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.citationLundesgaard, J. & Tevlina, V.V. (2017). Russian timber industry in the 1920s: on the short history of Russnorvegoles. Acta Borealia, 34(1), 26-49. https://doi.org/10.1080/08003831.2017.1317978en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1468729
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/08003831.2017.1317978
dc.identifier.issn0800-3831
dc.identifier.issn1503-111X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/13129
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis (Routledge)en_US
dc.relation.journalActa Borealia
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Økonomi: 210en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Economics: 210en_US
dc.subjectTimber industryen_US
dc.subjectNorthwest Russiaen_US
dc.subjectNew Economic Policyen_US
dc.subjectSeverolesen_US
dc.subjectRussnorvegoles concessionen_US
dc.subjectQuislingen_US
dc.subjectPrytzen_US
dc.titleRussian timber industry in the 1920s: on the short history of Russnorvegolesen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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