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This article explores the importance of family and personal connections through a model of informal economy present in a post-soviet, Trans-Carpathian (Ukrainian) village setting. I examine this informal economy through village residents’ narratives of a politically turbulent past that I collected during my research. Adaptive capacity is particularly observable in how the home-grown agency of two...