- Regional economic policy in the USSR - terms of national income
- Central Asia - its role in the Soviet economy and its economic structure
- problems of industrialization - the structure of industry, the case of the South-Tadzhik territorial-production complex, character and rate of industrial development in Central Asia
- cotton
- water - the Aral Sea problem, the background of the Sibaral project, the Great River project as a focus of Russian Nationalist movement
- labour and employment - labour surplus, agriculture, women--the standard of living
- the shadow economy and organized crime - Mafia tendencies in the shadow economy, the Adylov case
- the impact of the Gorbachev reforms on Central Asia.
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A descriptive analysis of the fundamental issues involved in the economy of Soviet Central Asia, this study examines economic plans - including Gorbachev's proposed economic reforms - and considers the problems of carrying them out in what is the agricultural heartland of the USSR. The study does not attempt to provide an exhaustive, or definitive analysis of the Central Asian economy and its problems. It aims to deal with those issues that seem most important and peculiar to that region.
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Boris Rumer explores the economic development of the four republics this troubled region comprises - Uzbekistan, Tajkistan, Turkmenistan, and Kirghizia - arguing that Central Asia serves as a prime example of the failure of Soviet regional economic development policies.
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