Introduction .................................................... 5
1 Macro-political survey ....................................... 6
2 Spatial aspects of the power structure and economic
development of the Soviet Union ............................. 10
2.1 Core regions in the Russian and Soviet empires ......... 10
2.2 The illusion of local and regional autonomy during
the 1920s .............................................. 17
2.3 Attempts at space-centric economic management at the
end of the 1950's, and the failures of regional
policy ................................................. 25
3 The regional portrait of the new Russia ..................... 30
4 Regional social problems .................................... 35
5 The Russian settlement structure ............................ 39
6 Deficiencies in regional development policy ................. 44
6.1 The slow process of institutionalisation of regional
policy ................................................. 44
6.2 Outdated territorial-administrative structure .......... 46
7 Fundamentals of the new regional development strategy ....... 51
References ..................................................... 56
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