The budget of the Soviet Communist Party -- Trends in party finance, 1939 - 1965 -- The special budget of 1948 -- "Impossible structures": resource allocation and party donors -- Funding loyalty with promises -- The party and its overseers -- Selective justice: party control under Stalin -- How...

Prologue : the patrimony of imperial Russia -- Introduction to Bolshevik gold : the nature of a forgotten problem -- The heist -- The banks -- The people -- The Gokhran -- The church -- Cashing in -- Brest-Litovsk and the diplomatic bag -- Blockade -- Stockholm -- London -- Rapallo -- Epilogue :...