- ISBN: 9780415322287 | 0415322286
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 5/23/2007
This book examines the political economy of attempts to restructure the Donbass, one of the Soviet Union's most important "old economy" "rustbelt" industrial regions. It shows how local interest groups have successfully frustrated central governments and the World Bank's proposed market-oriented restructuring, and how a manufacturing-based regional economy is surviving, partially, with restructuring postponed.