Although Siberia's production of gold in the days of the Czarist Governments averaged approximate. Rus tire production, it was ly a little over 40 "per cent.
never sufficient adequately to cover) St, Petersburg's budget expenditure for the administration of Siberis,! for that colony is not economically self supporting, the extent of its territory being colossal.
Like the Caucasus, Siberia figure a largo item in old-time Russia's budgets and this state of affairs continues even to the present day, despite the numerous attempts made fy Moscow to place on an independent footing completely out of Harbin's pocket.
The Far Eastern Republic of Siberia, otherwise known as Japan' buffer, which embraced the entire territory of the st as fac west as Lake Baikal was so helpless wncially that Moscow had to pro-sums of money, exclusive of military expenditure, considerably greater than St. Petersburg had previously done. Of course, in 1920; to 1922 when the Far Eastern Republic existed, the gold output of Siberia had, "practically -speaking, disappeared, and furs furnished the only revenue of that country.
State Capitalism Introduced hen Moscow introduced the Sovietitation of the Russian Far East. and dissolved the Far Eastern Republic, high protective tariff walls were established all around Siberis rendering it an impossibility for} Manchuria or any other country to, export goods into Siberia. Simulttaneously the economic policy of. state capitalism was launched Moscow to act as the wedge that was destined to place Siberia, econ-comically, high and dry beyond the reach of Moscow's enemies, for, be: it understood, Moscow fully realis~ ced that her enemies, while prepared to discontinue all further forms armed intervention, were nevertheless preparing to attack Russia by
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