Joining the Winners: Self-employment and stratification in Post-Soviet Russia

The New Entrepreneurs of Europe and Asia: Patterns of Business Development in Russia, Eastern Europe and China

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 3-38

  Gerber, Theodore P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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