The Geography of Russia's New Political Economy

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. This is the central thesis of Fiona Hill & Clifford Gaddy, The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold (Brookings Institution Press, 2003). 2. Per Botolf Maurseth, ‘Divergence and Dispersion in the Russian Economy’, Europe–Asia Studies, Vol. 55, No. 2 (2003), pp. 1165–85. 3. World Bank, From Transition to Development: A Country Memorandum for the Russian Federation (World Bank, 2005), pp. 47–50. Available at http://go.worldbank.org/47BLR525K0 (last accessed 6 November 2007). 4. For an excellent analysis of the spatial consequences of Soviet Planning, see Judith Pallot & Denis J.B. Shaw, Planning in the Soviet Union (Croom Helm, 1981). 5. The paradigmatic example of this in the literature would be Marshall Goldman's The USSR is Crisis: The Failure of an Economic System (W.W. Norton, 1983). 6. Hill & Gaddy, The Siberian Curse. 7. World Bank, From Transition to Development, pp. 41–7, and Timothy Heleniak, ‘The 2002 Census in Russia: Preliminary Results’, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vol. 44, No. 6 (2003), pp. 430–42. 8. See, for example, Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Local Heroes: The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance (Princeton University Press, 1997). 9. For a comprehensive analysis of regional economic change in the 1990s, see Philip Hanson & Michael Bradshaw (eds), Regional Economic Change in Russia (Edward Elgar, 2000). 10. Michael Bradshaw & Jessica Prendergrast, ‘The Russian Heartland Revisited: An Assessment of Russia's Transformation’, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vol. 46, No. 6 (2005), pp. 83–122, and Michael Bradshaw, ‘Observations on the Geographical Dimensions of Russia's Resource Abundance’, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vol. 47, No. 6 (2006), pp. 724–46. 11. Michael Bradshaw & Karen Vartapetov, ‘A New Perspective on Regional Inequalities in Russia’, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vol. 44, No. 6 (2003), pp. 372–98. 12. Clifford Gaddy & Barry Ickes, Russia's Virtual Economy (Brookings Institution Press, 2002). 13. Aton Capital, A Guide To Russia's Regions (Aton Capital, 2004), and SITE/CEFIR, Unleashing the Potential: Growth and Investment in Russia's Regions (Stockholm Institute for Transition Economics, 2006). 14. Rudiger Ahrend, ‘Russia's Post-crisis Growth: Its Sources and Prospects for Continuation’, Europe–Asia Studies, Vol. 58, No. 1 (2006), pp. 1–24, and Clifford Gaddy & Barry Ickes, ‘Resource Rents and the Russian Economy’, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vol. 46, No. 8 (2005), pp. 559–83. 15. Bradshaw & Prendergrast, ‘The New Russian Heartland’, pp. 116–7. 16. Vladimir Kontorovich, ‘The Importance of Geography’, in Michael Ellman (ed.), Russia's Oil and Natural Gas: Bonanza or Curse? (Anthem Press, 2006), pp. 173–85. 17. Shinichiro Tabata, ‘Observations on the Influence of High Oil Prices on Russia's GDP Growth’, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vo. 47, No. 1 (2006), pp. 95–111. 18. Philip Hanson, ‘The Russian Economic Puzzle: Going Forwards, Backwards or Sideways?’, International Affairs, Vol. 83, No. 5 (2007), pp. 869–89. 19. For a discussion of transfer pricing, see World Bank, From Transition to Development, and OECD, Economic Surveys: The Russian Federation (OCED, 2006). 20. Hanson, ‘Russia's economic puzzle’, pp. 879–84. 21. Stanislav Kolenikov & Anthony Shorrocks, ‘A Decomposition Analysis of Regional Poverty in Russia’, Review of Development Economics, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2005), pp. 25–46. 22. World Bank, Russian Economic Report, November 2005 (World Bank, 2005), p. 13. 23. World Bank, Russian Economic Report, June 2007 (World Bank, 2007), p. 12. 24. UNDP Russia, National Human Development Report Russian Federation 2006/2007, Russia's Regions: Goals, Challenges and Achievements (UNDP Russia, 2007), p. 112. Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichael BradshawMichael Bradshaw, Department of Geography, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK.