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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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Language notes: | English. |
| Imprint: | Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2006. |
| Series: | Culture and society after socialism.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
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