Elites and classes in the transformation of state socialism
By: David Lane
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Brunswick
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781412842310
Subjects: Post-communism; Social classes; Social change; Elite (Social sciences)
Table of contents: title: Elite and class perspectives on social change and transformation; title: Introduction : the elite and class paradigms; title: Theoretical approaches to transformation and social change; title: Class and elite paradigms of transformation from state socialism; title: The transformation of the USSR; title: Preconditions of reform : the modernisation of the Soviet Union; title: Transforming elites under Gorbachev and Eltsin; title: Who 'made' the Gorbachev elite's decisions?; title: The Eltsin political elite; title: Conclusions : the transformative role of the political elites; title: Class outcomes; title: The formation of Russian capitalism; title: The place of the socialist and post-socialist states in the capitalist world system; title: Popular support for, and opposition to, reform.