Most recent research seeks to explain contemporary changes in Russia by analysing the decisions of Russian leaders, oligarchs, and politicians based in Moscow. This book examines another Russia, one of ordinary people changing their environment and taking opportunities to provoke societal changes in small towns and the countryside. Russia is a resource rich society, and the country s strategy and institutional structure is built on the most valuable of these resources: oil and gas. Analysing the implications of this situation on the local level, this book offers chapters on resource use,...