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- Title
Exile and exclusion: The legacy of soviet forestry for villages in the north of Perm oblast.
- Authors
Moran, Dominique
- Abstract
This paper explores the relationship between the forestry enterprises (leskhozi) and the inhabitants of forestry villages in the northern rayony of Perm oblast, Russian Federation in the context of the ‘new regional geography’. These relationships are compared with those identified between peasant farmers and collective and state farms post-1991, and a theory of the cultivation of these relationships as a coping mechanism for both households and enterprises facing difficult economic circumstances is advanced. The situation in the northern rayony is contextualised through discussion of the settlement and development history of the region, which was a recipient of forced and voluntary labour migration during the Soviet period. The paper concludes that in accordance with recent theories of post-communist regional development, the experience of transition in the northern rayony of Perm oblast is determined at least in part by its social and economic context.
- Subjects
PERM (Russia); RUSSIA; FOREST products industry; BUSINESS enterprises; FARMERS; LABOR mobility; FORCED labor; POVERTY; FORESTS &; forestry
- Publication
GeoJournal, 2001, Vol 55, Issue 2-4, p541
- ISSN
0343-2521
- Publication type
Article