Cover; Contents; Figures, Tables, Graphs, and Appendices; Acknowledgements; Part I: Political Elites in the Late USSR; 1 Soviet Society: Institutional Polyarchy; 2 The CPSU Ruling Elite, 1966-1991; 3 The Central Committee Apparat, 1981-1991; 4 The Government Bureaucracy; 5 The Supreme Soviet of the USSR: From Fusion to Fission; 6 The Political Elite under Gorbachev: Cohesion and Division; Part II: The Post-Soviet Governing Elites; 7 The Ascendant Elite:Yeltsin and the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation, 1990-1993; 8 Mutation: the Political Elite, 1991-1995. Reproduction or Circulation?
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9 The Economic Elite, 1991-1996: Reproduction or Circulation?10 Transition under Yeltsin: Elite Values; 11 Conclusions; Appendix 1 Biographies of Soviet and Russian Political and Economic Leaders; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
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Crucial to the understanding of breakdown and transition are analyses of changes within the internal relations of national elites. In this book, the authors define and detail the political elites under state socialism, showing how the elites under Gorbachev were profoundly fragmented. They further reveal how, with the maturation of state socialism, new class interests arose which were cultivated by, and in turn influenced, the Gorbachev leadership. The authors put forth the argument that these class interests are strongly represented in today's political "settlement" in Russia. They.
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9780312216122
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Elite (Social sciences)-- Russia (Federation)
Elite (Social sciences)-- Soviet Union.
Political leadership-- Russia (Federation)
Political leadership-- Soviet Union.
Economic history.
Elite (Social sciences)
Political leadership.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Russia (Federation), Economic conditions, 1991-
Russia (Federation), Politics and government, 1991-