Russia's Economy of Favours Hardback: Blat, Networking and Informal Exchange: 102 (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Series Number 102) - Hardcover

Ledeneva

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521621747 ISBN 13: 9780521621748

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1998

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This book examines the little-known phenomenon of blat - the use of informal contacts and personal networks to obtain goods and services under the rationing which pervaded Soviet Russia. Alena Ledeneva analyses the historical, socio-economic, and cultural aspects of blat, and explores its implications for post-Soviet Russia.

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'Russia's Economy of Favours provides fascinating insights into an important and neglected aspect of Soviet/Russian society. Anthropologists, sociologists, and historians will all benefit from this vivid and informed study, based on interview data from the early 1990s, of Russian networking practices. This work by a young Russian scholar is a fine example of an emerging post-Soviet Russian scholarship that combines theoretical sophistication with a solid empirical base and a native 'feel' for the situation.' Sheila Fitzpatrick, University of Chicago

'In a most felicitous fashion this book weds analytical sophistication to the initimate, inside knowledge and 'feel' of Russian realities. Whether a seasoned expert in Russian history and culture or just a person interested in unfamiliar yet fascinating ways of life, the reader will be richly rewarded by a much deeper understanding of how Soviet and post-Soviet society, worked and goes on working, and what the experience of living in that society feels like.' Zygmunt Bauman, University of Leeds

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Book by Ledeneva Alena V

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0521621747
• ISBN 13: 9780521621748
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256