The Siberian curse : how communist planners left Russia out in the cold
This is a provocative look at a problem that has been overlooked since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The book argues that years of forcing people and economic activity out into the vast, resource-rich, but inhospitably cold, territory of Siberia has burdened Russia with huge problems and costs
Print Book, English, ©2003
Brookings Institution Press, Washington, D.C., ©2003
History
xix, 303 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
9780815736448, 9780815736455, 0815736444, 0815736452
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The great errors
Size matters
The cost of the cold
Geography is not destiny
Siberia : plenty of room for error
Disconnected Russia
Taking stock : how much has changed?
Can Russia shrink?
Russia of the mind
Tearing down Potemkin Russia