Crisis and Renewal in Twentieth Century Banking

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Contents: Introduction Part I War and Revolution: Russian and Foreign Banks, 1917-30: A private banking house at war: Barings and Russia, 1914-17, John Orbell Russian banks during the First World War and the Revolution, Sergej Lebedev Witnesses to revolution: the archives of foreign banks in Russia, Catherine Potier. Part II Depression and Political Turmoil in Central Europe: Under western eyes: foreign banks' archives relating to Central and Eastern Europe between the wars, Edwin Green Croatian banking during the 1926-36 depression, Ivo Bicanic and Zeljko Ivankovic. Part III Banking in Civil War and its Aftermath: The Republic besieged? British banks and the Spanish Civil War 1936-39, Tom Buchanan Spanish banking after the Civil War: a halting reconstruction under Fascism, Gabriel Tortella and Jose L. GarcA a-Ruiz The transition after the civil war in Greece, Konstantinos Kostis. Part IV Post-war reconstruction: The German and Far Eastern Experience: The transformation and reconstruction of banking in Germany, 1945-57, Martin L. MA1/4ller New political realities and the post-war re-establishment of foreign banks in East and South-East Asia, Frank H.H. King. Part V Crisis and Renewal in 20th-century Banking: the Slovenian Experience: A comparison of banking crises in Slovenia in the 1930s and 1990s, Franjo A tiblar Slovenian banking in transition, Ivan Ribnikar. Part VI Rupture and Reconnections: South-East European banks and Western banking: 20th-century connections and crises, John R. Lampe Reconstructing national identities: the banknotes of Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s, Virginia Hewitt and Tim Unwin Index.