Industrial Raw Materials and the Construction of Informal Empire
Industrial Raw Materials and the Construction of Informal Empire
The emergence of a new "closeness with the Soviet Union" policy in the early 1930s helped ensure that Soviet agents had priority access to Xinjiang's resource wealth. Increasingly, as war appeared to loom low on the horizon by the mid-1930s, Soviet economic officials came to be interested less in commodity goods and more in industrial minerals essential for the production of armaments. Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, Soviet agents aggressively surveyed Xinjiang's deposits of resources like petroleum, tungsten, and beryllium. Building upon earlier surveys and infrastructures, they concentrated their efforts at a small handful of petroleum, tungsten, and rare non-ferrous production sites in northern Xinjiang that were located close to the Soviet border.
Keywords: Soviet Union, petroleum, oil, tungsten, beryllium, Dushanzi, informal empire, geologists, World War II
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