Handbook of the Soviet Union 1935

Handbook of the Soviet Union published by the American Russian Chamber of Commerce in New York. The book features information on area and population, government with courts and legal codes and civil and criminal law; foreign relations with commercial treaties and trades and agreements; economic geography and natural resources with fur and timber, agricultural and mineral resources and allocation of productive forces; economic development; the Second Five-Year Plan; industry with coal, coke, oil, peat, timber, food industry, and electrification; agriculture, transportation and communications; municipal construction; foreign trade of the USSR; American-Soviet trade relations; domestic trade; finance with the currency system, banking system, credit reform, savings banks and financing of National Economy; labour conditions and social welfare; educational and cultural development; regulations for foreigners; tourist travel in the Soviet Union including Intourist service, transit, visa regulations and border points. With statistical survey, a chronicle of events, a diagram showing administrative divisions of the USSR, with a map of the European Territory of the USSR inside the front cover, and a map of the Asiatic Territory of the USSR inside the back cover, both by the Edinburgh Geographical Institute, copyright by John Bartholomew. Very good condition, 562 pages.