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The series Russia and the Asia-Pacific explores political, economic, social,
cultural and environmental interactions of the Russian Far East within its
Asian-Pacific context as well as with the Russian capital in the past and present.
Its first volume addresses from a multidisciplinary perspective notably the
following questions: How were and are directives from a centre thousands of
kilometers away perceived and implemented by actors in this region? To which extent
was and is the centre successful or how did or does it fail in integrating a region
as far away from the centre as the Russian Far East in its state structures? How
have notions of centre and periphery changed over time?