Soviet Natural Resources in the World Economy
Soviet Natural Resources in the World Economy

Author: Robert G. Jensen

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1983-08

Total Pages: 910

ISBN-13: 9780226398310

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Russia is a huge storehouse of natural resources, including oil, gas, and other energy sources, which she can trade with the rest of the world for advanced technology and wheat. In this book, leading experts evaluate the Soviet potential in major energy and industrial raw materials, giving special attention to implications for the world economy to the end of the twentieth century. The authors examine the mineral and forest resources that the Soviet Union has developed and may yet develop to provide exports during the 1980s. They discuss the regional dimension of these resources, especially in Siberia and the Soviet Far East; individual mineral raw materials, such as petroleum, natural gas, timber, iron ore, manganese, and gold; and finally the role of raw materials in Soviet foreign trade. The authors, representing the United States, Canada, and Great Britain, are primarily geographers, but they include economists, political scientists, and a geologist. Their work is based on primary sources (for most of these reports, current information is no longer being released to researchers) and on interviews with Soviet officials.

Employment Planning in the Soviet Union
Employment Planning in the Soviet Union

Author: Silvana Malle

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1990-06-18

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1349115886

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A study of many aspects of employment conditions and the labour force in the Soviet Union. It examines production capacity, job rights under Soviet law and an outline of Soviet wage policy. The information is current as Soviet newspapers and journals were used as research material.

Geography
Geography

Author: Harm J. de Blij

Publisher:

Published: 1988-01-18

Total Pages: 698

ISBN-13:

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An introduction to world regional geography organized according to developed and less developed regions, this text provides an overview of the regional geography of the world, as well as basic systematic geography. Covers Europe, the Soviet Union, North America, Australia, Japan, Middle and South America, Africa, Southwest Asia, the Indian Perimeter, China, and Southeast Asia. Material covered includes regional concepts and classification; culture and landscape; pleistocene influence; climate regions; water cycles; and soil distribution. Specifics of each region are also considered, such as population, politics, changing natural environment, and economics. Also discusses urbanization, industrialization, environmental hazards and diseases, and more. Features several indices and a glossary.

Geographic Perspectives on Soviet Central Asia
Geographic Perspectives on Soviet Central Asia

Author: Robert Lewis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-10-04

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1134903383

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In a unique survey, based on new census data, Geographic Perspectives on Soviet Central Asia highlights the region's geographic, economic and ecological problems since 1945. Painting a grim picture, this book investigates how the combination of rapid population growth and declining per capita investment is causing economic conditions to slide in rural areas and encouraging an ecological catastrophe. The authors discuss the effects of low rural out-migration, and show that at current growth rates the rural working-age population will double with each generation. Unprecedented in a developed country, this is causing the region to become more rather than less rural. Soviet Central Asia is an area of low productivity, and the book considers the lack of support from Soviet central government to the region. Wishing to maximise their return to capital and labour, the government is concentrating its investment in the European West and directing insufficient funds for a growing workforce in Central Asia. Soviet Central Asia also faces grave ecological problems; the declining level of the Aral Sea, extensive soil salinization and water pollution, all largely due to past attempts at irrigation. The authors consider the effect of these disasters on the area, and look to future possibilities in this very important region of the world.