Adam (University of Nottingham, UK) Swain 
Re-Constructing the Post-Soviet Industrial Region [EPUB ebook] 
The Donbas in Transition

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 the central government »s and the World Bank »s proposed market-oriented restructuring, and how a manufacturing-based regional economy is surviving, partially, with restructuring postponed.