Samara Oblast': A governor and his guberniya

Communist Economies and Economic Transformation

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 341-361

  Romanov, Pavel ^a   Tartakovskaya, Irina ^a  

^a Inst for Compar Labour Rel Res   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC POLICY; POLITICAL ECONOMY; REGIONAL POLICY;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION, SAMARA OBLAST;

EID: 0031738844     PISSN: 13514393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14631379808427925     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Samara is a donor region in the conventional sense in which, in 1994-97, only around 10-12 out of 89 federal subjects were commonly reckoned to be donors: they received no transfers from the Federal Fund for the Support of the Regions. Aleksei Lavrov, Mify i rify Rossiiskogo Gyitdzhelnogo federalizma (Moscow, 1997), has argued that the classification of regions into a few donors and many (not) recipients is somewhat arbitrary, being highly sensitive to change in statistical definition of the transfer in both directions. It would seem, however, that Samara is on any measure a region with an unusually strong fiscal base.
2. Goskomstat Samara, Sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoe polozhenie Samarskoi oblasti, yanvar'noyabr' 1997 (Samara, 1997), p. 6 (preliminary numbers for the whole year).
3. Yurii N. Motkov (chief specialist in the ablast' administration's industrial co-ordination department), 'New Approaches to the Design and Financing of Regional Conversion Programmes', Proceedings of a regional research and policy-making conference on the 'Socio-economic Development of Samara ablast': strategy, problems and solutions', Samara, 23-24 May 1996, pp. 202-205. (The absolute level of defence sector employment had fallen.)
4. G. N. Ardakov (head of the Volga Territorial Centre for Environmental Pollution Monitoring), Report on 'The State of the Environment in the Middle Volga in 1995', delivered to the conference cited in note 3.
5. O. V. Semenchuk, 'Demographic Problems of the Region', Proceedings ... pp. 311-314.
6. The figures in this section come chiefly from Goskomstat Samara, Solsial'no-ekonomichcskoe polozhenie ... Gross regional product in 1994 and 1995 are Goskomstat figures provided by Gleb Bylov. Some 1996 figures are from Samarskie izvestiya, 9 January 1997, p. 4.
7. Izvestiya, 25 October 1997, p. 5.
8. Goskomstat Samara, p. 13.
9. Delo (Samara), 1997, p. 49.
10. Semenchuk.
11. Delo, 1997, p. 14.
12. Samarskoe obozrenie, 1997, 1, p. 2. Here and elsewhere, the reference is to 'old' rubles, that is, prior to the re-denomination of 1 January 1998, when three noughts were removed from the ruble, and 1 new ruble was equivalent to 1000 old rubles.
13. Goskomstat Samara, p. 87.
14. Small-firm data from ibid, p. 68.
15. S. N. Bartcneva (Deputy head of the department of aggregate economic statistics of the Samara ablast' state statistical office), 'Priorities and Development Tendencies in the Samara ablast' Economy', Report delivered to the conference cited in note 3.
16. Region, 1996, 1, p. 48.
17. See especially I. Kozina & B. Borisov on the changing status of workers in industrial enterprises in Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya, 1994, 11.
18. The results discussed here come from surveys conducted in Samara and Otradny by the Sociology Laboratory of the Samara State Pedagogical University (SGPU) and the Institute for Comparative Analysis of Labour Relations (ISITO). The data come from the archive of the SGPU Sociology Laboratory. The data are stored and analysed using SPSS. The surveys were conducted by formal (not open-ended) interviesvs with respondents selected randomly from the electoral lists (and therefore all over 18). Sampling error is ±5%. The data come from the following surveys for Samara city: 1989 survey on reactions to the first Congress of People's Deputies (1030 respondents); 1990 survey on attitudes to various political issues (1250 respondents); 1993 survey of opinions about the city administration (1050 respondents); 1994 survey about national and city issues (800 respondents); 1996 repeat of the 1994 survey. For Otradny there is a 1994 survey of 800 respondents, selected in the same way as for Samara city, covering issues of state and local policy and pre-election political preferences and a 1996 repeat of that survey. We are grateful to the (Samara) Fund for Social Research, and in particular to its President, Vladimir Zvonovsky, for providing some missing data.
19. Data from the annual report on the town's economy for 1994, produced by the Otradny statistical administration in 1995.
20. Labour in the economy of Samara ablast', February 1996.
21. S. A. Alashcev & I. Tartakovskaya, 'Ideological stereotypes amongst electors in Samara', Solsiologicheskii diurnal, 1996, 1-2, pp. 182-189.
22. The accusations of wrong-doing were levelled at G. Yu. Shatsky, the chairman of the regional executive committee of the DVR. The charges were made in an article by Ya. Maklovsky, 'Money that Smells of ... Chloroform', in Moya gaieta, 14 January 1995. They were based on papers of the local branch of the Federal Tax Police, purporting to trace money misappropriated from the regional medical insurance fund, along a paper trail that led to the DVR regional chairman.
23. On this point and several others we have drawn on work in progress, kindly made available to us by E. M. Lapshova.
24. Titov, intending to place himself in a mini-presidential position, above government, on the El'tsin model, created a so-called regional government, with Logoido as its head. When his own post was stabilised as head of the regional administration, this government became a non-functioning, shadow organisation.
25. V. Ya. Lyubovnyi et al., 'Crisis towns in the Samara region: socio-economic problems and a strategy for stabilisation and recovery', paper presented at 23-24 May 1996 conference in Samara, cited in note 3 above.
26. Samarskoe obozrcnic, 2 November 1996, pp. 182-189.
27. Ibid., p. 6.
28. 'Agrarian reform: results, problems, perspectives', report to the conference cited in note 3.
29. V. M. Kobzeva, The situation in the grain sector in Samara", Proceedings ..., pp. 168-171.
30. V. L. Mokshina, Proceedings ..., pp. 166-168.