In this well-researched and detailed book, the editors provide an extensive and critical analysis of post-Soviet regional integration. After almost two decades of unfulfilled integration promises, a new – improved and functioning – regime emerged in the post-Soviet space: the...

Policy approach towards employment has changed under perestroïka. The emphasis is falling on the release of labour from the material branches and on its partial redeployment in the service sector in general and in the cooperative sphere in particular. The pattern of labour redeployment,...

This paper singles out elements of continuity in the Russian path to development and growth after transformation to market under the assumption that Soviet legacies have a bearing on current policies and provide some insights as to how the Russian market system may develop in the future. Drawing...