Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-254) and index.
Contents
Political elites in the late USSR. Soviet sociey : institutional polyarchy -- The CPSU ruling elite, 1966-1991 -- The Central Committee Apparat, 1981-1991 -- The government bureaucracy -- The Supreme Soviet of the USSR : from fusion to fission -- The political elite under Gorbachev : cohesion and division -- The post-Soviet governing elites. The ascendant elite : Yeltsin and the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation, 1990-1993 -- Mutation : the political elite, 1991-1995, reproduction or circulation? -- Transition under Yeltsin : elite values -- Conclusions.