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 consider various interpretations of what has led to Russia’s current condition, including the idea that "executive" capital is more important than political capital and has been reproduced in the transition from communism.
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David Lane teaches at Emmanuel College in Cambridge, England.
Cameron Ross teaches at the University of Dundee.
Cameron Ross teaches at the University of Dundee.
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Until the late 1980s, state socialist societies appeared to be stable and permanent fixtures in the architecture of international politics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
partocratic regime, first deputy chair, viet elite, transition from communism, legislative elite, ascendant elite, acquisition class, elite differentiation, elite disunity, party apparat, elite variable, parliamentary elite, first deputy head, medium machine building, executive elite, ideological elite, elite unity, elite structure, elite circulation, first deputy minister, industrial executive, terminal period, first party secretary, deputy chairmen Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Supreme Soviet, Communist Party, Council of Ministers, Soviet Union, Party Congress, Eastern Europe, Russian Federation, United States, Congress of People's Deputies, Communist Group, Western European, Capitalism Table, Russian Republic, Robert Putnam, The Ascendant Elite, Percent All, Academy of Sciences, All-Union Party, Capitalism Graph, New Business Elite, Occupation Begun, Preliminary Report, Total Mean Total New!
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Until the late 1980s, state socialist societies appeared to be stable and permanent fixtures in the architecture of international politics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
partocratic regime, first deputy chair, viet elite, transition from communism, legislative elite, ascendant elite, acquisition class, elite differentiation, elite disunity, party apparat, elite variable, parliamentary elite, first deputy head, medium machine building, executive elite, ideological elite, elite unity, elite structure, elite circulation, first deputy minister, industrial executive, terminal period, first party secretary, deputy chairmen Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Supreme Soviet, Communist Party, Council of Ministers, Soviet Union, Party Congress, Eastern Europe, Russian Federation, United States, Congress of People's Deputies, Communist Group, Western European, Capitalism Table, Russian Republic, Robert Putnam, The Ascendant Elite, Percent All, Academy of Sciences, All-Union Party, Capitalism Graph, New Business Elite, Occupation Begun, Preliminary Report, Total Mean Total New!
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- Executive Power and Soviet Politics by Huskey on 4 pages
- The Gorbachev Factor by Archie Brown in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Executive Power and Soviet Politics: The Rise and Decline of the Soviet State (Contemporary Soviet/Post-Soviet Politics) by Eugene Huskey in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Political Leadership in the Soviet Union by Archie Brown in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Dev Sov/Post Soviet Pol-P by Stephen White in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- How Russia is Not Ruled: Reflections on Russian Political Development by Allen C. Lynch on page 74, page 208, and Back Matter
- Democratic and Capitalist Transitions in Eastern Europe: Lessons for the Social Sciences (GeoJournal Library) by M. Dobry in Front Matter, and page 128
- Elites and Democratic Development in Russia (Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition) by Vladimir Gel'man on page 28, and page 186
- Economic Autonomy and Democracy: Hybrid Regimes in Russia and Kyrgyzstan by Kelly M. McMann on page 155, and Back Matter
- Russian Politics and Society by Richard Sakwa in Back Matter
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