||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| She sheds a great deal of light on things in Ukraine, where I live|By Graham H. Seibert|The strangest contradictions in Ukraine are between the very high level of kindness and trust among people in certain circumstances, and the fraudulent manipulation and absolute lack of trust on the other. Ledeneva, a woman of Siberian extraction living in England, conducted several seri||"This is an excellent account of informal practices that characterize and shape the political and business spheres of activity in contemporary Russia. . . . an important addition to our understanding of contemporary Russian affairs."―Graeme Gill, Russian ,
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 Russia Really Works, Alena V. Ledeneva explores practices in politics, business, media, and the legal sphere in Russia in the 1990s—fro...
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