In this paper, we use data from a large nationally representative survey in Russia to empirically estimate the …

Russia's peripheral regions. Our analysis of firm-level industrial data for 1989 and 2004 highlights a 'death of distance' in …

, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Slovak Republic, and Slovenia). The analysis covers the early transition period up to 2002; in the …

transformation in Russia. Putin boasts he has the backing of workers in the country's industrial heartland, but as economic growth … slows in Russia, reviving the economy will require restructuring the country's industrial landscape. At the same time, doing … so threatens to generate protest and instability from a key regime constituency. However, continuing to prop up Russia …