How Russia Really Works : : The Informal Practices That Shaped Post-Soviet Politics and Business / / Alena V. Ledeneva.

During the Soviet era, blat—the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures—was necessary to compensate for the inefficiencies of socialism. The collapse of the Soviet Union produced a new generation of informal practices. In How...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Culture and Society after Socialism
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 11 tables, 7 charts/graphs, 5 line figures
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