Publisher's Synopsis
This series consists of works by the members or associates of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Russian and East European Studies of the University of Birmingham. Special interests of the centre include Soviet economic and social history, contemporary Soviet economics and planning, science and technology, sociology and education.;In this volume the author presents an analysis of Soviet spatial resource allocation decision making, utilizing a political economy framework to evaluate the "East-West" debate over relative investment shares in the European and Pacific Siberian parts of the USSR. Analysis of interrelationships between economic and territorial planning are included.;The text covers the period 1955-1980 and deals mainly with domestic factors in Pacific Siberian development. Original trade and balance of payments calculations for USSR regions-republics are included together with original case studies of the political economy of industrial location of the iron and steel, chemicals and machine building and metal working sectors.
