Russia''s Economy of Favours - Blat, Networking and Informal Exchange

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of cartoons; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Blat: the unknown phenomenon; 2. Understanding blat; 3. The Soviet order: a view from within; 4. The use of personal networks; 5.Blat as a form of exchange: between gift and commodity; 6. Networking in the post-Soviet period; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Alena C. Ledeneva, Alena V. Ledeneva, Alena V. (University of London) Ledeneva
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.08.1998
• EAN: 9780521621748
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62174-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Cambridge Russian, Soviet & Po
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology