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Author:

Lane, David Stuart.

Title:

Elites and classes in the transformation of state socialism / David Lane.

Publisher:

Transaction Publishers,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

222 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Elite (Social sciences)--Soviet Union.
Social classes--Soviet Union.
Social change--Soviet Union.
Post-communism--Russia.

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

Elite and class perspectives on social change and transformation -- Introduction : the elite and class paradigms -- Theoretical approaches to transformation and social change -- Class and elite paradigms of transformation from state socialism -- The transformation of the USSR -- Preconditions of reform : the modernisation of the Soviet Union -- Transforming elites under Gorbachev and Eltsin -- Who 'made' the Gorbachev elite's decisions? -- The Eltsin political elite -- Conclusions : the transformative role of the political elites -- Class outcomes -- The formation of Russian capitalism -- The place of the socialist and post-socialist states in the capitalist world system -- Popular support for, and opposition to, reform.

ISBN:

141284231X (acid-free paper)
9781412842310 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)699758415

LCCN:

2011005798

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)