Drawing on both Development Studies and post-Soviet literature, this study examines projects in Siberia since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Focusing on critical accounts of development projects in Siberia, managed by the author, this book provides a first-hand account of the successes and failures of development aid.

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JUDITH MARQUAND was the first Head of the Economics of Environmental Protection Division in the UK Government Economic Service, chairing the OECD Sub-Committee of Economic Experts. She holds honorary doctorates from Salford University, UK and Tomsk State University, Russia. She held a Research Fellowship at Louvain-la-Neuve University, Belgium and a Senior Simon Research Fellowship at Manchester University, UK. She has headed a research centre at Sheffield University and taught at Oxford University, UK. She is the author of Autonomy and Change.

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List of Maps and Tables Foreword Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Prologue Introduction PART I: BACKGROUND The Russian Context The EU TEMPUS TACIS Programme The UK Know How Fund and SEPS Programmes PART II: THE PROJECTS Introduction to Part II Management Development for TSU Library, 1994-8 TSU Environmental Management Masters Degree, 1995-9 Tomsk Oblast Ecological Committee, 1998-9 Developing Distance Learning in Siberia, 1999-2001 Sustainable Development in Omsk, 2002-03 and 2005 European Studies at TSU, 2000-02, 2003-06 and 2007-08 PART III: LESSONS Lessons from the Projects Lessons for Donors Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index