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Minerals: a Key to Soviet Power
Minerals: a Key to Soviet Power
By Demitri B. Shimkin
Harvard University Press, 1953, 452 pp.

This book, a product of the Russian Research Center at Harvard, is based on the premise that the study of mineral economics provides an exceptionally useful guide to the total economy, to the technology, and to the broad policies of modern nations, especially the Soviet Union.