Money and Prosperity in the USSR

 Guest: Kristy Ironside is an assistant professor of history at McGill University. She studies and writes about the political, economic, and social history of modern Russia and the Soviet Union. Her new book is titled A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union published by Harvard University Press. Music: The Damned, “Lovely Money,” The Light at the End of the Tunnel, 1998.