Russia's Economy of Favours: Blat, Networking and Informal Exchange by Alena V. Ledeneva

Russia's Economy of Favours: Blat, Networking and Informal Exchange

Alena V. Ledeneva

256 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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This book examines the little-known phenomenon of blat--the use of informal contacts and personal networks to obtain goods and services under the rationing that pervaded Soviet Russia. Alena Ledeneva analyzes the historical, socioeconomic and cult...

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