This work examines the geographic position of soviet Asia in the
overall econany of the USSR and analyzes the impact of major
national policy issues on its development and prospects. The Asian
USSR constitutes three-fourths of the country's territory, an area
exceeding the size of Brazil and Australia combined. Its
acquisition was the result of Russian expansion and conquest in the
past 499 years. This vast territory is still hinterland to the
European USSR, weakly and unevenly integrated into the country's
economic and societal mainstream. Moreover, the Asian USSR is
hardly unifonn, culturally or otherwise. Its regions play very
different roles in the Soviet spatial system and are affected by
different policy choices on the national level. On the one hand,
there are striking contrasts between Moslem Central Asia and
Siberia (including the Far East). On the other hand, the Siberian
regions are also assigned different economic and strategic roles
according to their resource endovnent, their links to the economic
power centers in the European USSR (partly a function of their
east-west and north-south positions) and their strategic
vulnerability or importance.
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