Title | Georgia, a social-democratic peasant republic, impressions and observations |
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Publisher | International Bookshops |
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Date | 1921 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 111, [1] pages; 19 cm |
Original Item Location | DK5ll.G3K3 1921 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304504~S11 |
Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
Use and Reproduction | Public Domain: This item is in the public domain and may be used freely. |
File Name | index.cpd |
Title | Image 31 |
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File Name | uhlib_2669984_030.jpg |
Transcript | overcome by the attractive force which petroleum could have exerted. The commodity most in demand for export was still manganese, which was not dependent on the Russian market. Of the million tons of ore which Georgia exported in 1913, merely one per cent, went to Russia; on the other hand, 38 per cent, went to Germany, 22 per cent, to England, and 17 per cent, to Belgium. From the outbreak of war up to the present time the export of this commodity. has suffered considerably from transport difficulties. These difficulties, which were not created by the democratic regime, formed, together with the backwardness of agriculture, the chief cause of the blight which rested after the revolution upon the Georgian paradise. 29 |