Sub-National Elites and Post-Communist Transformation in Russia: A Reply to Kryshtanovskaya and White
Author(s)
Hughes, James
Abstract
There is a trend in the recruitment of deputies in the seven regions of post-Soviet Russia. The nomenklatura has recomposed itself on the basis of a reassertion of power by the hierarchies of the economic managerial elite and the administrative elite. Rather than a ruling elite rigidly bifurcated into two social segments, there is a system of two dominant but interlocking segments. These segments are the business and political-administrative directorates which draw mainly from political-administrative leaders and economic leaders.
