How Russia really works : the informal practices that shaped post-Soviet politics and business /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2006.
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Colección: | Culture and society after socialism.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Why are informal practices still prevalent in Russia?
- Chernyi piar : manipulative campaigning and the workings of Russian democracy
- Kompromat : the use of compromising information in informal politics
- Krugovaia poruka : sustaining the ties of joint responsibility
- Tenevoi barter : shadow barter, barter chains, and nonmonetary markets
- Dvoinaia bukhgalteriia : double accountancy and financial scheming
- Post-Soviet tolkachi : alternative enforcement and the use of law.