How Russia Really Works Ledeneva Alena V.
How Russia Really Works Ledeneva Alena V. During the Soviet era, blat--the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures--was…
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How Russia Really Works Ledeneva Alena V.
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. In How Russia Really Works, Alena V. The collapse of the Soviet Union produced a new generation of informal practices.
They enable corporations, the media, politicians, and businessmen to operate in the post-Soviet Ledeneva explores practices in politics, business, media, and the legal sphere in Russia in the 1990s--from the hiring of firms to create negative publicity about one's competitors, to inventing novel schemes of tax evasion and engaging in "alternative" techniques of contract and law enforcement.Ledeneva discovers ingenuity, wit, and vigor in these activities and argues that they simultaneously support and subvert formal institutions.
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