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

How Russia Really Works: The Informal Practices That Shaped Post-Soviet Politics and Business

Alena V. Ledeneva

270 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction politics dark tense medium-paced
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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 p...

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