How Russia Really Works
, by Ledeneva, Alena V.- ISBN: 9780801473524 | 0801473527
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/1/2006
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