About Alena V. Ledeneva
Alena V. Ledeneva, author of Russia’s Economy of Favours (CUP, 1998), teaches at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. For a more detailed account of Russia’s informal economy, see her booklet How Russia Really Works, Centre for European Reform, April 2001.
Articles by Alena V. Ledeneva
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How Russia really works
For Russia to achieve long-term success in the global economy, it will need transparent “rules of the game” to replace the dominance of “unwritten rules”. But to get from here to there, we must first understand how Russia works today.It’s becoming a commonplace to say that “in Russia, nothing is as strong as it seems, nor as weak”.
