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Geography and Transition: Reconceptualizing Systemic Change in the Former Soviet Union

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Nicholas J. Lynn
Nicholas J. Lynn*
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The Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Systemic transition in the former USSR is an inherently spatial process. In the most general sense, marketization, privatization, and internationalization involve a reordering of the political space and the restructuring of the economic and social landscapes of the former Soviet Union (FSU). In a number of more specific ways, geography also provides a structure within which individuals and institutions operate, and it provides a series of opportunities and constraints. Geographers, then, should be able to make an important contribution to debates concerning systemic change in the FSU.

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Slavic Review , Volume 58 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Ten Years after 1989: What Have We Learned? , Winter 1999 , pp. 824 - 840
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1999

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