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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. The author provides the reader with a comprehensive analysis of the new state.
Contents
List of Tables.List of Maps.Preface.Acknowledgements.ONE The Territorial and Imperial Heritage. TWO The Soviet Heritage. THREE The Emerging Federation. FOUR The Command Economy and the Transition to Capitalism. FIVE The Changing Space Economy. SIX Saving the Environment. SEVEN Population: Urban and Rural Life. EIGHT The Regions of Russia. NINE Russia's Autonomous Territories. TEN Russia and the 'Near Abroad'. ELEVEN Russia and the Wider World. Glossary.Further Reading.Bibliography.Index.
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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).
By: Denis Shaw
320 pages
The author has put together an excellent textbook on Russia's new geography. I can, without hesitation, recommend this book for students of the Russian realm. Olga Medvedkov, Wittenberg University, Ohio 'Now, we have a single author book which brings together the research of systematic specialists into a coherent whole which interprets the rapidly changing world of the Russian Federation for an undergraduate audience...and reminds Russian specialists that there is a geographical element to the "transition" and geographers that the post-communist world is a rich field for geographical wnquiry.' Dr. Judith Pallot, School of Geography, University of Oxford.