Regional economic policy in the USSR - terms of national income; Central Asia - its role in the Soviet economy and its economic structure; problems of industrialization - the structure of industry, the case of the South-Tadzhik territorial-production complex, character and rate of industrial development in Central Asia; cotton; water - the Aral Sea problem, the background of the Sibaral project, the Great River project as a focus of Russian Nationalist movement; labour and employment - labour surplus, agriculture, women;the standard of living; the shadow economy and organized crime - Mafia tendencies in the shadow economy, the Adylov case; the impact of the Gorbachev reforms on Central Asia.
