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Vol. 56, No. 1, pp. 53-68 (2005)

“Economic Developments in the Trans-Caucasian Countries under the Soviet Regime”
Yoshiaki Nishimura (The Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University), Fumikazu Sugiura (The Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)

This article aims at briefly describing economic developments in the Trans-Caucasian countries under the Soviet regime, making use of the macroeconomic statistical data which have been recently made available. These countries are attracting world-wide attention because they are located in a geopolitically important area in terms of the transportation route of oil produced in the Caspian region to European market, and because the region has suffered severe ethnic conflicts due to the complicated history. Nevertheless, there have been very few serious studies on the economic development there. One reason behind this may consist of the lack and / or the effective limitation to the access to the statistical data of the republics of USSR. But fortunately, the Russian State Archive of the economy declassified most of the documents of the Soviet Central Statistical Office, and the Interstate Statistical Committee of the CIS also made public the macroeconomic data of the Soviet republics. We examine the economic developments in the region, show types of the economic developments of the Soviet republics, and reveal real differences in the economic development among the republics.