This book analyzes the effects of the break-up of the Soviet Union into fifteen independent states. Topics discussed include: * past and present economic relations between the republics, and forecasts for the future * discussion of Customs Unions, Monetary Union or Payments Union as possible ways forward for these states * economic integration theory * how the states of the Soviet Union functioned before the dissolution.
Before 1991 little was known of the individual states that made up the USSR. Here the effects of the break-up of the Soviet Union on the identities of the fifteen independent states are analyzed.
