Geography of Human Resources in the Post-Soviet Realm: A Panel

Abstract

A panel of geographers, demographers, and political scientists debates a broad spectrum of urgent social issues confronting the successor states of the former USSR. Particular emphasis is given to an examination of problems emerging as a result of unequal rates of population and labor force growth; interethnic tensions; the “stranding” of members of particular nationalities (e.g., Russians) outside officially recognized homelands as former SSR boundaries become international borders; refugee flows generated by armed conflicts; fractious industry-government-labor relations in the economy; unemployment; and divergent policies and attitudes toward privatization in city (housing) and countryside (peasant farms). 7 tables, 7 graphs, 6 maps, 68 references.