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

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).