Current problems of Europe

Transformation of the post-Soviet political and administrative elites

Дука А.В.

Duka A.V. – Head of the Department of Sociology of authority, power structures and civil society, Sociological Institute, RAS (St. Petersburg), Ph.D. in Politics.

Abstract

Looking at the institualization of Russian elites after the collapse of state socialism in the country, the author analyses the institutional, structural and personal aspects of this process.

Keywords

Russia, power elites, institualization, transformation, recruiting, corruption, plutocracy, oligarchy.

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