Format:
1 online resource (331 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Edition:
2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780203417355
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0415075920
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0203417356
Series Statement:
Studies of the Harriman Institute
Content:
Cover -- Geographic Perspectives on Soviet Central Asia -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Maps and Figures -- Part I Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- Conclusions and implications -- References -- Part II Regional Background -- 2 The Frontier and Colonialism in Russian and Soviet Central Asia -- Frontiers, colonies, and multiethnic states -- Frontier expansion and colonialism in Russian Central Asia -- The Russian experience in Central Asia in comparative perspective -- References -- 3 The Political Geography of Soviet Central Asia : Integrating the Central Asian Frontier -- Introduction -- Political integration of the Central Asian periphery -- Historical political geography of Soviet Central Asia -- Central Asia as a unified region: consolidating the frontier -- The nature of Soviet federalism: the political structure -- Local political geography: administrative reorganization and political representation -- Integrating the Central Asian frontier: different perspectives -- Notes -- References and bibliography -- 4 The Physical Geography of Soviet Central Asia and the Aral Sea Problem -- Introduction -- Climate -- Mountains -- Deserts -- Water resources -- Irrigation agriculture and regional development -- River diversion schemes -- The Aral Sea -- Choices for the Aral Sea -- Conclusion -- References and bibliography -- Part III Economic Geography -- 5 Soviet Geographical Imbalances and Soviet Central Asia -- Introduction -- The geographical imbalance -- Constraints to a solution -- Solutions and some problems -- Trends in capital allocations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6 Agricultural Change, Labor Supply, and Rural Out-Migration in Soviet Central Asia -- Overview of Central Asian agriculture -- Irrigation and water resources -- Land use and the cotton economy.
Content:
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.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415075923
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Geographic perspectives on Soviet Central Asia London [u.a.] : Routledge, 1992 ISBN 0415075920
Additional Edition:
Print version Geographic Perspectives on Soviet Central Asia
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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Geography
Keywords:
Sowjetunion
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Zentralasien
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Politische Geografie
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Sowjetunion
;
Zentralasien
;
Sozialgeografie
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Zentralasien
;
Geografie
;
Mittelasien
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Geografie
;
Mittelasien
;
Wirtschaftsgeografie
;
Mittelasien
;
Sozialgeografie
;
Usbekistan
;
Landeskunde
;
Turkmenistan
;
Landeskunde
;
Kasachstan
;
Landeskunde
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