2.The Emergence of a New Elite:
Harbinger of the Future or Vestige of the Past?
Boris Grushin

3. The Elite and the Masses in Public Opinion
Yurii Levada

4. Crime and the Formation of a New Elite
Victor Luneev

5. Elite Corruption in Modern China:
Explanations and a Comparison with
Contemporary Russia
Tony Carnes

Part 2. Elites in Post-Soviet Republics
6. Typology of the Modern Byelorussian Elite
Vladimir Snapkovskii

7.The Emergence of the Lithuanian Political Elite
Vladas Gaidys

8.The Ruling Elite of Kazakhstan in the
Transition Period
Rustem Kadyrzhanov

9.The New Elite in Post-Communist Uzbekistan
William Kandinov

10.The Ukrainian Political Elite:
Its Features and Evolution
Nikolai Churilov

11.The Political Elite of the Republic of Moldova
Vladimir Solonar

Part 3. The Regional Elite in Russia
12.Elite Transformation in the Saratov Region
Petra Stykow

13.The Ruling Elite of Tatarstan:
Contemporary Challenges and Problems of Adjustment
Midkhat Farukshin

14.Social Structure and Political Tenets
of the New Branch of the Russian Regional Elite
Mikhail Loiberg

15.The Dominant Elites of Siberia: The Altay Region
Vladimir Shubkin

Part 4. Types of the Elite
16.The Orientations of Some Elite Groups
in Times of Reform
Elena Avraamova

17.Formation of the Business Elite in Russia
Ivan Kukolev

18. The New Agricultural Elite in Post-Communist Russia:
The Saratov District
Vladimir Palagin

19.The Academic Elite in the Post-Totalitarian Period
Alexander Boronin

20.Political Power and Science
Vladimir Zakharov

21.Women in the New Russia Elite
Tatiana Marchenko

22.The Future Belongs to Me:
Russian Students and Their Religious Views
Samuel Kliger