1. 1. For one of the few exceptions, see Jerry F. Hough, The Soviet Prefects: The Local Party Organs in Industrial Decision-Making, Cambridge, MA, 1969.
2. 2. See John Lowenhardt and Stephen White, Beyond the Garden Ring: A Bibliography, Mimeo, University of Glasgow, 1999; Neil Melvin and Rosalia Puglisi, Bibliography of Sources on Russia’s Regions
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3. 3. Nikolai Petrov, ‘Tsentr politiko-geograficheskikh issledovanii: ot “Vesny 89” do “Almanakha 2001” ‘, in Nikolai Petrov (ed.), Regiony Rossii v 1999 godu, Moscow, 2001, pp. 295–316.
4. 4. See Michael Bradshaw and Philip Hanson, ‘Understanding regional patterns of economic change in Russia: An introduction’, Communist Economies and Economic Transformation, 10(3), 1998, pp. 285–304; Vladimir Gel’man and Sergei Ryzhenkov, ‘Politicheskaia regionalistika Rossii: istoriya i sovremennoe razvitie’, in Yurii Pivovarov (ed.), Politicheskaya nauka sovremennoi Rossii: tendentsii razvitiya, Moscow, 1999, pp. 173–255.
5. Gel’man and Ryzhenkov, ‘Politicheskaia regionalistika’, p. 173.