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Criminal Capitalism in Imperial Russia: Counterfeiters, Merchants and Gendarmes

A talk with Sergei Antonov of Columbia University. From the Jordan Center website: Forgery and counterfeiting are as old as money itself, but they enjoyed a fresh start in the eighteenth century when European states, including Russia after 1769, began to rely on paper currency and long-term national debt to pay for their ever-expanding militaries and extensive imperial projects. Printing…