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Authors: Shaw
ISBN-13: 9780631181347, ISBN-10: 0631181342
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: February 1999
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Shaw

Denis Shaw is Reader in Russian Geography in the School of Geography and Associate Member of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham. His previous books include Planning in the Soviet Union (with J. Pallot, 1981), Landscape and Settlement in Romanov Russia 1613-1917 (with J. Pallot, 1990), and The Post-Soviet Republics: A Systematic Geography (Editor, 1995).

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This book presents a geographical analysis of the new Russia which has emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union since 1991.

	List of Tables
	List of Maps
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
1	The Territorial and Imperial Heritage	1
	Russia: the Territory and Its Acquisition	1
	The Natural Environment and Resources for Development	10
	Russian Development: the Long-term Influences	18
	Economic and Social Development to 1917	24
2	The Soviet Heritage	31
	Revolution: the Establishment of the Soviet State	32
	Economic Transformation	35
	Stalinism and After	40
	General Reflections on Soviet Communism	45
3	The Emerging Federation	51
	'Core and Metropolis': the Russian Federation before 1985	51
	The Resurrection of Russia: the Gorbachev Years (1985-1991)	54
	The Russian Federation Today: Ethnic and Political Geography	58
	The Russian Federation and Problems of Federalism	62
	The Russian Federation and Russian National Identity	69
4	The Command Economy and the Transition to Capitalism	73
	The Command Economy in the Post-Stalin Period	73
	Problems of the Command Economy	77
	A Geography of Neo-Stalinism	81
	The Economic Reforms of Gorbachev and Yeltsin (after 1985)	83
	The Economy in Transition	87
5	The Changing Space Economy	94
	Regional Economic Change since 1991	97
	Factors Influencing Regional Economic Change	108
	Winners and Losers in Regional Economic Change	113
	Sectoral Developments: Energy, the Defence Sector, Services, Transportation	114
6	Saving the Environment	127
	The Geographical Context of Soviet Environmental Disruption	127
	The Political and Economic Context of Soviet Environmental Disruption	131
	The Russian Environment in the Early 1990s	134
	Environmental Management since 1991	141
	The Russian Environment in the Transition	146
	The International Dimension	150
	Conclusion	150
7	Population: Urban and Rural Life	152
	Demographic Patterns and Migration	152
	Urban Life	161
	Rural Life and Agriculture	170
8	The Regions of Russia	183
	Russia's Regions in History	183
	Moscow and the Central Economic Region	188
	St. Petersburg and the Northwest Region	192
	The Northern Economic Region	194
	The Volga - Vyatka Region	197
	The Volga Region	198
	The Central Black Earth Region	200
	The North Caucasus Economic Region	202
	The Urals Economic Region	204
	The West Siberian Economic Region	206
	The East Siberian Economic Region	208
	The Far East Economic Region	210
9	Russia's Autonomous Territories	213
	Geographical Characteristics and Population of the Autonomous Territories	213
	History of Settlement of the Autonomous Territories	215
	Economic Development of the Autonomous Territories	217
	North European and Middle Volga-Urals Group	222
	The North Caucasus	230
	Siberia and the Far East	235
	Territories of the Far North	242
	Peoples without Homelands	244
	Conclusion	246
10	Russia and the 'Near Abroad'	248
	Nation Building in the 'Near Abroad'	249
	The Russian Diaspora	255
	Territorial and Security Issues	262
	Economic and Trade Relations	265
	The Future of the CIS	266
11	Russia and the Wider World	269
	The Soviet Heritage	270
	Post-1991 Influences on Russian Policy	274
	International Economic and Trade Relations	276
	Russia, Europe and the West	278
	Russia and the South	282
	Russia, the Far East and the Pacific Basin	284
	Conclusion	287
	Some Place Name Changes in the Post-Soviet States	288
	Glossary	289
	Further Reading	291
	Bibliography	296
	Index	308

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