There's been tremendous political wrangling in the US recently about raising the debt ceiling. We are not the first country in history to have to borrow money and won't be the last. From the late imperial period until the early 1920s, Russia found money from an unlikely source. Professor Jennifer Siegel joins the Policy 360 podcast to discuss that story. Her book is For Peace and Money: French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars.