From russia with blat: Can informal networks help modernize Russia?

Social Research

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 257-288

  Ledeneva, Alena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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