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Democracy and Capitalism The Role of the Former Elites in Postcommunist Transformation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Georges Mink
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Analyse des Systèmes Politiques [Unit for the Analysis of Political Systems] - Université Paris-X Nanterre
Jean-Charles Szurek
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Analyse des Systèmes Politiques [Unit for the Analysis of Political Systems] - Université Paris-X Nanterre

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Although, in one respect, the role of popular movements in the collapse of the Soviet system was clear and fundamental, nevertheless that played by the former Communist elites was equally important.

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Research Article
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Copyright © ICPHS 2002

References

Note

1. For a detailed analysis of the conversion of former nomenklaturas to a market economy and to democracy, the reader is referred to our work La grande conversion, le destin des communistes en Europe de l'Est (The great conversion, the fate of Communists in Eastern Europe), Paris, Seuil 1999.