Pub Date : 1994-01-01DOI: 10.1080/10605851.1994.10640950
James H. Noren
A senior, recently retired, CIA analyst examines a range of issues relating to the availability and quality of economic statistics on the successor states of the former USSR. Among the developments covered are the legacy (in personnel and procedures) of the former USSR Goskomstat in the republican statistical committees; the availability of statistical series for the former Soviet republics for 1992, 1991, and the pre-1991 period; inconsistencies and sources of bias in statistical reporting that warrant heightened awareness on the part of geographers and other social scientists; and proposed methodological reforms in statistical reporting. 8 tables, 42 references.
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Pub Date : 1993-12-01DOI: 10.1080/10605851.1993.10640947
A. Treyvish, K. Pandit, Bond R. Andrew
The paper investigates oblast-level variations in employment structure accompanying shifts from industrial to services and information-related economic activities in the European regions of the former USSR over the period 1959-1985. Quantitative indices of secondary, tertiary, and quaternary development form the basis for a typology of sectoral development coincident with post-industrial transformation, with 10 categories being identified in the study region. The spatial character of diffusion of higher-level activities is assessed and some factors believed to be relevant to the situation in 1993 are outlined. 8 figures, 27 references.
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Pub Date : 1993-12-01DOI: 10.1080/10605851.1993.10640948
P. Ilyin
A senior urban geographer examines historical trends in the renaming of urban places bearing people's names in the former USSR, from the Bolshevik Revolution to the formal end of its existence in December 1991. Particular attention is devoted to waves of renamings (a) to honor political and military leaders during the 1920s and 1930s; (b) to erase the legacy of Stalin; honor native writers, composers, and poets; and boost fraternal relations within the socialist block in the 1950s; and (c) to eliminate unwanted vestiges of the communist past during the period from the late 1980s to the present. 1 table, 29 references.
{"title":"Renaming of Soviet Cities after Exceptional People: A Historical Perspective on Toponymy","authors":"P. Ilyin","doi":"10.1080/10605851.1993.10640948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10605851.1993.10640948","url":null,"abstract":"A senior urban geographer examines historical trends in the renaming of urban places bearing people's names in the former USSR, from the Bolshevik Revolution to the formal end of its existence in December 1991. Particular attention is devoted to waves of renamings (a) to honor political and military leaders during the 1920s and 1930s; (b) to erase the legacy of Stalin; honor native writers, composers, and poets; and boost fraternal relations within the socialist block in the 1950s; and (c) to eliminate unwanted vestiges of the communist past during the period from the late 1980s to the present. 1 table, 29 references.","PeriodicalId":85331,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography","volume":"34 1","pages":"631-660"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10605851.1993.10640948","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59716998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1993-11-01DOI: 10.1080/10605851.1993.10640945
C. D. Harris
"The paper...analyzes the characteristics of 27 million non-Russians who constituted 18 percent of the population of the Russian Federation and its 31 ethnic homelands in 1989. Utilizing data from all Soviet censuses (from 1926), it reviews long-term historical trends; growth patterns related to urban-rural differences, family size, regional contrasts in rates of natural increase, and specific ethnic traits; migration patterns; factors influencing language shifts to the Russian; effect of location inside or outside homeland; and the influences of transportation, cities, and economic development in individual homelands."
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Pub Date : 1993-11-01DOI: 10.1080/10605851.1993.10640946
D. V. Atta
{"title":"The Current State of Agrarian Reform in Uzbekistan","authors":"D. V. Atta","doi":"10.1080/10605851.1993.10640946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10605851.1993.10640946","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85331,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography","volume":"34 1","pages":"598-606"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10605851.1993.10640946","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59716947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
"The paper...analyzes the characteristics of 27 million non-Russians who constituted 18 percent of the population of the Russian Federation and its 31 ethnic homelands in 1989. Utilizing data from all Soviet censuses (from 1926), it reviews long-term historical trends; growth patterns related to urban-rural differences, family size, regional contrasts in rates of natural increase, and specific ethnic traits; migration patterns; factors influencing language shifts to the Russian; effect of location inside or outside homeland; and the influences of transportation, cities, and economic development in individual homelands."
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Pub Date : 1993-10-01DOI: 10.1080/10605851.1993.10640943
Leslie Dienes
A senior American economic geographer examines a broad array of geographical factors affecting economic relations among the Soviet successor states (particularly Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan) and relations among their constituent regions. Special attention is devoted to legacies of unequal resource endowment and infrastructure development from the Soviet period (e.g., monopolization and spatial concentration of production capacity, “trunklining” of distribution nets) and other factors perpetuating dependency relationships in post-Soviet economic space. 3 tables, 66 references.
{"title":"Economic Geographic Relations in the Post-Soviet Republics","authors":"Leslie Dienes","doi":"10.1080/10605851.1993.10640943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10605851.1993.10640943","url":null,"abstract":"A senior American economic geographer examines a broad array of geographical factors affecting economic relations among the Soviet successor states (particularly Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan) and relations among their constituent regions. Special attention is devoted to legacies of unequal resource endowment and infrastructure development from the Soviet period (e.g., monopolization and spatial concentration of production capacity, “trunklining” of distribution nets) and other factors perpetuating dependency relationships in post-Soviet economic space. 3 tables, 66 references.","PeriodicalId":85331,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography","volume":"34 1","pages":"497-529"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10605851.1993.10640943","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59716858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1993-10-01DOI: 10.1080/10605851.1993.10640944
D. Shaw
A paper assessing prospects for the future of federalism in Russia investigates geographic and other factors that historically have either promoted or inhibited the unity of the Russian state. Among the major factors complicating the process of forging a new federal relationship among Russia's central government, republics, and oblast-level units, the paper focuses on the question of the Russian state's legitimacy, the only partial character of democratization, limited experience with constitutional federalism, and contradictions between individual and ethnic rights. 2 tables, 19 references.
{"title":"Geographic and Historical Observations on the Future of a Federal Russia","authors":"D. Shaw","doi":"10.1080/10605851.1993.10640944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10605851.1993.10640944","url":null,"abstract":"A paper assessing prospects for the future of federalism in Russia investigates geographic and other factors that historically have either promoted or inhibited the unity of the Russian state. Among the major factors complicating the process of forging a new federal relationship among Russia's central government, republics, and oblast-level units, the paper focuses on the question of the Russian state's legitimacy, the only partial character of democratization, limited experience with constitutional federalism, and contradictions between individual and ethnic rights. 2 tables, 19 references.","PeriodicalId":85331,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography","volume":"34 1","pages":"530-540"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10605851.1993.10640944","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59716901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1993-10-01DOI: 10.1080/10605851.1993.10640942
R. Clem, P. Craumer
Two geographers analyze the spatial dimension of results of the historic Russian referendum of April 25, 1993, which produced dramatic regional differences in the degree of support for President Boris Yel'tsin and his economic reform policies. The paper correlates the outcome of the referendum with demographic and economic performance variables for the political-administrative units of Russia. It thus assesses the extent to which approval of Yel'tsin was associated with such variables as urbanization, education, white collar work force, percentage of workers in agriculture, and age of the population. 5 figures, 5 tables, 23 references.
{"title":"The Geography of the April 25 (1993) Russian Referendum","authors":"R. Clem, P. Craumer","doi":"10.1080/10605851.1993.10640942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10605851.1993.10640942","url":null,"abstract":"Two geographers analyze the spatial dimension of results of the historic Russian referendum of April 25, 1993, which produced dramatic regional differences in the degree of support for President Boris Yel'tsin and his economic reform policies. The paper correlates the outcome of the referendum with demographic and economic performance variables for the political-administrative units of Russia. It thus assesses the extent to which approval of Yel'tsin was associated with such variables as urbanization, education, white collar work force, percentage of workers in agriculture, and age of the population. 5 figures, 5 tables, 23 references.","PeriodicalId":85331,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography","volume":"34 1","pages":"481-496"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10605851.1993.10640942","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59717291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1993-09-01DOI: 10.1080/10605851.1993.10640941
James H. Noren
A senior CIA analyst, just recently retired, reviews the economic performances of the Soviet successor states in turbulent 1992 and first quarter 1993. A general assessment of national income and GDP precedes a more detailed survey of sectoral performance (output by sector of origin and GNP by end use) and inflation in the republics. Final sections examine the extent to which economic problems in the various republics are a reflection of disrupted production linkages visa-vis reduced demand for output. Performance in republics opting for more dramatic reforms are contrasted with those in which major change thus far has been postponed. 9 tables, 4 figures, 23 references.
{"title":"The FSU Economies: First Year of Transition","authors":"James H. Noren","doi":"10.1080/10605851.1993.10640941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10605851.1993.10640941","url":null,"abstract":"A senior CIA analyst, just recently retired, reviews the economic performances of the Soviet successor states in turbulent 1992 and first quarter 1993. A general assessment of national income and GDP precedes a more detailed survey of sectoral performance (output by sector of origin and GNP by end use) and inflation in the republics. Final sections examine the extent to which economic problems in the various republics are a reflection of disrupted production linkages visa-vis reduced demand for output. Performance in republics opting for more dramatic reforms are contrasted with those in which major change thus far has been postponed. 9 tables, 4 figures, 23 references.","PeriodicalId":85331,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography","volume":"34 1","pages":"419-452"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10605851.1993.10640941","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59717278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}