The Institutional Real Este Letter: Residential in Russia, Building Blocks
Jun 01, 2008
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How well you got on in the former Soviet Union — in terms of all the things that matter most to people in life: job, career, Communist Party membership, education, housing, holidays — depended largely on how well connected you were, on who you knew, what the Russians term using the vliyaniye, literally influence, that you could muster. And how you used it.
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