REGIONAL PLANNING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOVIET ASIA

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Abstract
The role of regional planning in the development of the Asian regions of the USSR is analyzed in the context of system-wide problems: the dominance of branch over territorial management in economic decision making and the absence of effective coordination among all-Union, republic, and local planning levels. Territorial-production complexes are receiving increasing attention as units of regional planning and foci of investment resources in Siberia, but departmentalism among the different entities comprising TPCs reduces their effectiveness in strengthening horizonal production linkages.