Comparison of Soviet and post-Soviet Russian settlement systems with the US settlement system, 1959-2020
Year: 2021

The lack of discernible changes in the Russian (hereinafter RF) settlement system after the transition from a centrally managed economy to a capitalist economy seems to be contrary to the established view of the exceptional character of capitalist-style settlement systems. To explain this misunderstanding, we compared the state of settlement systems in Russia and in the United States between 1959 and 2020 in this paper. The measures of shape of the Pareto curve were used to quantify the state of