在俄罗斯的区域发展

Past Policies and Future Prospects

Hans Westlund, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping, Sweden and Institute for Developmental and Strategic Analysis, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Alexander Granberg, Chairman, Council for the Study of Productive Resources (SOPS), Moscow, Russia and Folke Snickars, Head of the Department of Infrastructure and Planning, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

This is the first book to provide an overview of Russia’s regional development during the entire Soviet period as well as presenting a penetrating analysis of the array of regional problems facing Russia as we move into the twenty-first century. It analyses factors contributing to cohesion and disintegration in Russia today, stressing the importance of ethnicity, religion and Russian nationalism. In examining regional developments and spatial policy during the Soviet period, the authors reveal a remarkable paradox that the development of heavy industry actually reduced regional inequalities, but as the economy diversified disparities widened. The book is also a document from ‘the people who were there’ – that is, those trying in the circumstances then prevailing to develop regional science which never achieved practical application under central planning. The authors conclude that the development of Russia is increasingly becoming an issue of the development of its regions.

‘This is a thoughtful and welcome addition to the literature about regional development in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. . . It is adequately written and straightforwardly presented. It is a specialist book, assuming considerable introductory knowledge of the economic history and geography of the country on the part of the reader.’
– Andrew H. Dawson, Progress in Human Geography