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270 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780801443466
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 15 November 2006
Description
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 p...
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270 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780801443466
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 15 November 2006
Description
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 p...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings