Zarządzanie regionem, regionalizm i region w Federacji Rosyjskiej

Regional management, regionalism and region in Russian Federation Regional sciences in Russia have a long and rich history. From a historical point of view, it’s beginnings can be found in the early XX century – during the time of organising the Soviet system and economy within the framework of ZSRR, when the science of regional management had led to creating many practical social solutions, and some, though they are now attributed to other sciences, economical. Importance of regional sciences had risen a lot in the past 20 due to changes in national economy as a whole caused by the process of switching to free market which creates the need for working out new laws, that could regulate reshaping the economy on a regional level, including at the same time the needs of whole country and its economy. It is possible to notice regularities connected with regulative and real practices within the regional management science, that can be summmed up by saying that officially declared political and economical goals are not always in relations to actual social and economical practices. As a consequence, a problem of defining the real state of matters within this domain. As a consequence, it was necessary to assess the true conditions existing within this field through analysing particular topics connected to that domain of science. As a result of conducting an analise a belief was made, that the main subject of concepts of regional management, as well as actual political decisions regarding this issue was the need to adapt regions and their economies and population to the current and future production needs, most commonly on the national level.