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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russians have seen the ruble steadily lose ground to alternative means of payment such as barter and privately issued quasi-monies. Industry now collects as much as 70 percent of its receipts in nonmonetary...
Review Quotes:
In this pathbreaking book, ... Woodruff employs a truly impressive range of primary sources.... Money Unmade affirms the vital importance of careful case study without retreating into disciplinary parochialism.... This is simply the best book yet published on postcommunist political economy, and it demands a close and careful reading by any scholar interested in understanding this momentous era of institutional transformation.
--Juliet Johnson, Dartmouth College "American Political Science Review"