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Comment on the view that Russia has just two 'regions' today: Moscow and 'the rest'.
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Markus Rasswallner Pembroke College Russian Regions 08.03.2003 Comment on the view that Russia has just two 'regions' today: Moscow and 'the rest'. With the fall of the USSR, signalling the end of the biggest socio-economic experiment in modern history, the scene was set for perhaps the most profound changes Russia has ever witnessed. Although many analysts predicted an idealised teleological development path to a Western-style market economy and liberal democracy across the whole of Russia, the reality has been rather different. Apart from the fact that a Western market economy is not the best description of today's Russia, regional differences - be they social, political and economic - are striking. At a first glance (especially if considering general economic variables such as contribution to GDP and share of FDI), it may appear that there are indeed just two 'regions': Moscow and the rest. However, this would be a gross oversimplification at best, and a distortion...
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