This article focuses on the phenomenon of political networking. It analyzes how such a necessity of socialist life and management as personal networking is utilized under the conditions of a transition to a market economy and democracy. The newly established political networks stretch from the...

This ebook's goals are to a) take stock of the changed economic, political and social landscape in Russia and examine issues that address the changed realities at the current stage of the post-communist transition; b) address issues that are new and hence under-researched; and c) examine issues,...