Natural resource development after Perestroika: Gold and tin mining in the Russian Northeast

In this thesis I will examine the process of economic and political decentralisation in Russia by looking at the current changes affecting the gold and tin mining industry of the Russian Northeast. These processes are linked with an alternation of authoritarianism and liberalism, and to general attitudes about economic factors of production. The mining industry, the Russian Northeast's principal economic sector, originated as an integral part of the Stalinist labour camp system and faces great problems functioning in the post-*perestroika* world. These problems include: conflicts between the centre (Moscow) and the region, falling mineral production, difficulties in privatising the mining industry, a recent large emigration of non-Native people, and difficulties in addressing the concerns of indigenous people and environmentalists.

Name dc:type.qualificationname

Master of Philosophy (MPhil)

Level dc:type.qualificationlevel

Masters

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

University of Cambridge

Year dc:date.issued

1993

Author dc:creator

• Tichotsky, John

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Vitebsky, Piers

• Gold mining
• Tin mining
• Russian Northeast

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Language dc:language

eng

DOI dc:identifier.doi

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.98981

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.repository.cam.ac.uk:1810/352786