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• W1530198111 abstract "The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2003. 240 pp. $18.95 paperback.At a first glance, the title of The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold by Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy, and the drab and desolate photo on the cover, bring forth two of the most stereotypical adjectives related to Russia: big and cold. Despite that initial impression, the authors' approach to Russia's geographical features, both in historical and economic terms, is original and well researched. Although recent literature on productivity and economic growth normally treats geography as the only exogenous variable, Hill and Gaddy argue that the allocation of human and physical capital across Russia was not an accident of nature's making. Indeed, Soviet central planners made policy choices that exacerbated the country's adverse geographical and climatic conditions.Hill and Gaddy draw on a variety of sources to support their thesis that productive resources were misallocated in Soviet Russia. To compare Russia's to other northern countries, the authors develop a statistic that should be useful for future research in this area. Temperature per capita (or TPC) is a populationweighted measure of mean January temperatures in different regions and in Russia as a whole. Since Canadian and Scandinavian populations are concentrated in regions with milder climates, Russia has the lowest TPC in the world. But is cold temperature really a curse? The authors contend that it is a major impediment to productivity, both of equipment and labor. In an attempt to quantify the cost of the cold, Hill and Gaddy refer to cold engineering research examining the effects of cold temperatures on workers' performance of different activities and provide bone-chilling accounts of machinery malfunctions as temperatures drop. Aside from production costs, people living in cold climes and the governments providing for them have to undertake adaptation costs in the form of heating, insulation of buildings, maintenance of infrastructure, and so on.After convincing the reader that the Russian winter is not merely a romantic concept glorified by the poets and feared by foreign armies, Siberian Curse traces the geographic history of the country to explain why millions of Russians ended up living in cities like Novosibirsk and Khabarovsk. Even before the Bolsheviks took power in 1917, Siberia was the destination for farmers looking for fertile soils and for prisoners banished from the European part of Russia. However, it was only during the Soviet period that a state-enforced, systematic, and perverse version of manifest destiny was implemented regarding Siberia. One interesting point made by the authors is that the forced-labor camp system (GULAG) was not the product of an overzealous ideological spirit, but a calculated solution to the shortage of voluntary labor faced by Communist central planners. To follow the writings of Friedrich Engels and spread production equally across the country's space, labor and capital had to be reallocated from the center to the regions, and forced labor was less expensive to move. According to Hall and Gaddy, the GULAG contributed the most to the spatial misallocation of resources within Russia. However, the ideology of developing Siberia was not abandoned with the demise of Stalin and forced labor camps. Various incentive schemes, financial as well as ideological, were adopted by Stalin's successors and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union. …" @default.
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