Reviews for The New American Reality: Who We Are, How We Got Here, Where We Are Going

The average rating for The New American Reality: Who We Are, How We Got Here, Where We Are Going based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-05-24 00:00:00 Mark Germond Had a lot of, honestly, very interesting info. But it was also incredibly, incredibly dense, especially for someone who has little background in Russian history/politics/economics beyond the broad strokes.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-05-02 00:00:00 Kaye Stinson Following up her previous study of Soviet Russia's underground economy of favors, Ledeneva tracks the disconcerting speed with which the system of "blat" transformed through cash into a vast network of "piar" (PR--good, incriminating and flat-out blackmail via "kompromat"), fraudulent accounting practices, personal links of influence (krugovaia poruka), tabloid newspapers, melodramatic lawyers and legions of undermeployed ex-KGB agents for hire.