By Jonathan R. Schiffer
ISBN-10: 0312025157
ISBN-13: 9780312025151
ISBN-10: 1349100501
ISBN-13: 9781349100507
ISBN-10: 1349100528
ISBN-13: 9781349100521
This sequence comprises works via the contributors or affiliates of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Russian and East eu reviews of the collage of Birmingham. distinctive pursuits of the centre contain Soviet financial and social background, modern Soviet economics and making plans, technology and expertise, sociology and schooling. during this quantity the writer offers an research of Soviet spatial source allocation selection making, using a political financial system framework to judge the "East-West" debate over relative funding stocks within the eu and Pacific Siberian elements of the USSR. research of interrelationships among fiscal and territorial making plans are integrated. The textual content covers the interval 1955-1980 and bargains quite often with household elements in Pacific Siberian improvement. unique alternate and stability of funds calculations for USSR regions-republics are incorporated including unique case reports of the political economic climate of commercial situation of the iron and metal, chemical compounds and desktop construction and steel operating sectors.
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All of these factors combined to make the region a poor comparative regional economic performer (that is, high cost, low capital and labour productivity). 6 (RSFSR). 1 illustrates the contradictory results obtained when contrasting the region's population density measured by territory and settlement area. 2). One thus has a typical 'pioneer' region, sparsely populated (though, by some indicators, highly concentrated) and poorly served by physical infrastructure. Given its status as a low efficiency economic performer, over the long term, the region has also received far less capital investment than other economic regions of the USSR.
Latvia , B. 1. 0. 5. j ArmQfli Certainly, there were a variety of positive NOTES l. The Moldavian SSR is not part of an economic region. 2. The Baltic region includes the Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian SSRs. 3. The Transcaucasian region includes the Georgian, Armenian, and Azerbaidzhani SSRs. 4. The Central Asian region includes the Turkmen, Uzbek, Tadjik, and Kirgiz SSRs. SouRCE Adapted from United States Central Intelligence Agency. Economic Regions in the Soviet Union (Washington, DC: USGPO, 1986). 3 Siberia's Northland SouRCE L.