RUSSIAN POLITICAL SALON AS THE LOCAL NETWORK
The paper discusses the phenomenon of patron-client relationship and social exchange in Russian political salons at the end of XIX and the beginning of XX centuries. M. Leonov argues that the salons functioned as an exchange network where actors were connected by a broker. For several decades this social mechanism has been used as a communication channel between the civil society and the state power.
Mikhail M. Leonov, PhD in history, associate Professor of Samara Academy of Humanitarian and Municipal Management.