How Russia really works : the informal practices that shaped post-Soviet politics and business /

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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Autor principal: Ledeneva, Alena V., 1964- (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Ithaca : Cornell University Press 2006.
Col·lecció:Culture and society after socialism.
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt7zdpw