Word: blatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...works by blat-influence, clout. Military families intermarry-so do scientific families, party families, writers' families. A Soviet old-boy network promotes its children's careers. Teachers can be intimidated to give better grades to sons of the powerful. According to Smith, "Russians themselves comment that the upper-class feeling today increasingly seems like Russia before the Revolution...