Contents -- Tables -- Series Editor's Statement -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1 Post- Communist Elites An Overview -- From Nomenklatura to New Elite -- The Emergence of a New Elite Harbinger of the Future or Vestige of the Past? -- The Elite and the Masses in Public Opinion -- Crime and the Formation of a New Elite -- Elite Corruption in Modern China Explanations and a Comparison with Contemporary Russia -- Part 2 Elites in Post-Soviet Republics -- Typology of the Modern Byelorussian Elite -- The Emergence of the Lithuanian Political Elite -- The Ruling Elite of Kazakhstan in the Transition Period -- The New Elite in Post- Communist Uzbekistan -- The Ukrainian Political Elite Its Features and Evolution -- The Political Elite of the Republic of Moldova -- Part 3 The Regional Elite in Russia -- Elite Transformation in the Saratov Region -- The Ruling Elite of Tatarstan Contemporary Challenges and Problems of Adjustment -- Social Structure and Political Tenets of the New Branch of the Russian Regional Elite -- The Dominant Elites of Siberia The Altay Region -- Part 4 Types of the Elite -- The Orientations of Some Elite Groups in Times of Reform -- Formation of the Business Elite in Russia -- The New Agricultural Elite in Post- Communist Russia The Saratov District -- The Academic Elite in the Post- Totalitarian Period -- Political Power and Science -- Women in the New Russian Elite -- The Future Belongs to Me Russian Students and Their Religious Views -- Post-Communist Elites Who Will Guard the Guardians? -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.