Bribery and Blat in Russia

Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction; A.Ledeneva, S.Lovell & A.Rogachevskii Payment, Gift or Bribe? Exploring the Boundaries in Pre-Petrine Russia; C.J.Potter Patrimonialism versus Rational Bureaucracy: On the Historical Relativity of Corruption; V.Volkov Bribery and Justice in the Provinces in the Reign of Catherine II: J.Hartley Self-Interested Giving: Bribery and Etiquette in Late Imperial Russia; C.Kelly Bureaucracy on Trial: A Malaise in Official Life as Represented in Nineteenth-Century Russian Thought; I.Davydova The Representation of Bribery in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature; A.Rogachevskii Reciprocity and the Soviet Culture Revolution: The Literary Perspective; S.Lovell Blat in Stalin's Time; S.Fitzpatrick Continuity and Change of Blat Practices in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia; A.Ledeneva Bribery as Reflected in the Russian Language; J.A.Dunn Bribery as Reflected in Contemporary Russia; C.Humphrey Attitudes to Bribery and Blat in Contemporary Russian Society: The Psychologist's View; V.Spiridonov Bureaucratic Encounters in Post-Communist Regimes: Evidence from Twenty-Six Focus Groups in the Former Soviet Union and East-Central Europe; W.L.Miller, T.Koshechkina & Å.Grodeland 'Who's the Boss: Us or the Law? The Corrupt Art of Governing Russia; M.Galeotti Index