Political Elites and the New Russia

An analysis of the role of elites under Yeltsin and Putin, dicussing how far they form a coherent politcal culture, and if this culture has been in step with, or at odds with, the reform policies of the Kremlin leadership.

Anton Steen is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo. He has written extensively on elites and democratisation in the Baltic States and is currently engaged in a project on elites and state-transformation in Russia.

1. Russian elites and the parallel transformations2. Defining and surveying elites3. Regime-legitimacy and political stability4. Democracy Russian style5. Between the state and the market6. Integration in a decentralised federation7. What matters for the elite's orientations?8. Decision-making cultures9. The network state10.The elites and the emerging Russian state