This integrated text provides students with a source of information on the transformed geography of the USSR that confronts its current problems and the likely future course. Topics covered include inequality in the Gorbachev era and the changes occurring to both city and countryside.

Introduction - industral restructuring and Soviet regional development, M.J. Bradshaw; spatial inequality under Gorbachev, R.D. Liebowitz; nationalism - the challenge to Soviet federalism, R. Kaiser; restructuring the Soviet city, D.J.B. Shaw; the countryside under Gorbachev, J. Pallot; perestroika and Siberia - frontier resource development, G.Hausladen; environmental degradation in the Soviet forest, B.M. Barr; Perestroika and the Soviet transportation system, R.M. North; foreign trade and regional development - the spatial impact of internationalization, M.J. Bradshaw; conclusions - the geographical dimensions of reform, M.J. Bradshaw.