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This distinctive book presents valuable new research on the political and economic elites that have emerged in Central and Eastern Europe since the demise of st

The year 2011 marks the twentieth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union. This may be an appropriate time to evaluate the adoption by previously state socia

The collapse of the former socialist states has led to the transformation of their political, economic and social systems as well as a major change in internati

In 1989 the Berlin Wall came down. Two years later the Soviet Union disintegrated. The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union discredited

This provocative and groundbreaking book challenges accepted wisdom about the role of elites in both maintaining and undermining democracy in an increasingly au