Mark Jones on the Soviet Collapse
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The late writer and historian Mark Jones on the end of the Soviet Union and the role of oil there. First paragraph follows...............
One autumn day in 1990 I was in Tyumen, capital of west Siberia's rich oil province. I knew Tyumen well and was a frequent visitor. Here were the 'competent organs' of party and government whose consent was necessary to make anything happen. And the city was a transit-point from Moscow for the great oil and gas producing centres lying in a huge arc around Tyumen from Yamal and Khantii-Manssisk in the north, to Urengoi, Tobolsk and the oil fields further south and west.
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