Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Post-Communist elites : an overview. From Nomenklatura to new elite / Olga Krishtanovskaia and Stephen White
  • The emergence of a new elite : harbinger of the future or vestige of the past? / Boris Grushin
  • The elite and the masses in public opinion / Yurii Levada
  • Crime and the formation of a new elite / Victor Luneev
  • Elite corruption in modern China : explanations and a comparison with contemporary Russia / Tony Carnes
  • pt. 2. Elites in post-Soviet republics. Typology of the modern Byelorussian elite / Vladimir Snapkovskii
  • The emergence of the Lithuanian political elite / Vladas Gaidys
  • The ruling elite of Kazakhstan in the transition period / Rustem Kadyrzhanov
  • The new elite in post-Communist Uzbekistan / William Kandinov
  • The Ukrainian political elite : its features and evolution / Nikolai Churilov
  • The political elite of the Republic of Moldova / Vladimir Solonar
  • pt. 3. The regional elite in Russia. Elite transformation in the Saratov region / Petra Stykow
  • The ruling elite of Tatarstan : contemporary challenges and problems of adjustment / Midkhat Farukshin
  • Social structure and political tenets of the new branch of the Russian regional elite / Mikhail Loiberg
  • The dominant elites of Siberia : the Altay region / Vladimir Shubkin
  • pt. 4. Types of the elite. The orientations of some elite groups in times of reform / Elena Avraamova
  • Formation of the business elite in Russia / Ivan Kukolev
  • The new agricultural elite in post-Communist Russia : the Saratov district
  • The academic elite in the post-Totalitarian period / Alexander Boronin
  • Political power and science / Vladimir Zakharov
  • Women in the new Russian elite / Tatiana Marchenko
  • The future belongs to me : Russian students and their religious views / Samuel Kliger
  • Epilogue. Post-Communist elites : who will guard the guardians?