Sorokina, Alfia2010-05-252010-05-2520102010http://hdl.handle.net/10393/12910http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-6300This work explores the connections between the constructed representations of places based on local histories, the processes of tradition reinvention and the strategies of regional development in two Russian regions. This analysis also outlines the context created by the external to the regions influences and the associated with them local conditions.ensocial field of historical productionterritorial identity and developmentre-invented traditionsowning developmentregional imagehistorical representationsdevelopment resource poolregional developmentlocal developmentThesis