Russia in the Modern World: A New Geography: 1 (The Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers Studies in Geography)

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Illustrated
2009
$56.82

This book presents a geographical analysis of the new Russia which has emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union since 1991.

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This book presents a geographical analysis of the new Russia which has emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union since 1991.

$56.82

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 340
Edition: 1
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 01 Dec 2009
ISBN 10: 0631181342
ISBN 13: 9780631181347

Media Reviews

The author has put together an excellent textbook on Russiaa s new geography. I can, without hesitation, recommend this book for students of the Russian realm. Olga Medvedkov, Wittenberg University, Ohio a Now, we have a single author book which brings together the research of systematic specialists into a coherent whole which interprets the rapidly changing world of the Russian Federation for an undergraduate audience...and reminds Russian specialists that there is a geographical element to the transition and geographers that the post--communist world is a rich field for geographical wnquiry.a Dr. Judith Pallot, School of Geography, University of Oxford.

Author Bio

Denis Shaw is Reader in Russian Geography in the School of Geography and Associate Member of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham. His previous books include Planning in the Soviet Union (with J. Pallot, 1981), Landscape and Settlement in Romanov Russia 1613--1917 (with J. Pallot, 1990), and The Post--Soviet Republics: A Systematic Geography (Editor, 1995).