Lecture by Professor Ledeneva on Informality in Russia in Comparative Perspective

‘Intellectualnaya gostinaya’ (Intellectual Club') is pleased to invite you to join a meeting with Professor Alena Ledeneva devoted to the ‘Informality in Russia and in the World: Evidence from the Global Informality' Project.

Meeting will be held on Monday, December 17, at 6:00 p.m.,  11 Myasnitskaya str.,  room 424.

The Intellectual Club was created to facilitate informal intellectual discussions on a variety of topics. Moderator – Svetlana Barsukova.

If you need a pass to HSE, please send an email with your first and last name and the title of the event to vvasileva@hse.ru before 17.12.2018, 10:00 a.m.

Alena Ledeneva is Professor of Politics and Society at the University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies, United Kingdom.

She is an internationally renowned expert on informality and governance in Russia. Her books Russia's Economy of Favours (1998), How Russia Really Works (2006), and Can Russia Modernize? (2013) have become must-read sources on Russian studies and social sciences. Her latest co-edited volumes include Innovations in Corruption Studies (2017) and The Global Encyclopedia of Informality (2018).

She received her PhD in Social and Political Theory from Cambridge University (1996). She is a founding director of the Global Informality Project and a founder of the UCL Press FRINGE series.

More about ‘The Global Informality Project’.

‘Global Encyclopedia of Informality’ (free access): Vol. 1, Vol. 2.