The Transition from Communism to Capitalism or Integrated Value Management

The Transition from Communism to Capitalism: Ruling Elites from Gorbachev to Yeltsin

Author: David Lan

Crucial to the understanding of breakdown and transition are analyses of changes within the internal relations of national elites. In this book, the authors define and detail the political elites under state socialism, showing how the elites under Gorbachev were profoundly fragmented. They further reveal how, with the maturation of state socialism, new class interests arose which were cultivated by, and in turn influenced, the Gorbachev leadership. The authors put forth the argument that these class interests are strongly represented in today’s political "settlement" in Russia. They consider various interpretations of what has led to Russia’s current condition, including the idea that "executive" capital is more important than political capital and has been reproduced in the transition from communism.

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Lane (sociology, Cambridge U.) and Ross (politics, U. of Dundee) define and detail the Russian political elites under state socialism, showing how, under Gorbachev, the elites were profoundly fragmented. They also reveal how new class interests arose that were cultivated by, and in turn influenced, the Gorbachev leadership. The work concludes with a detailed explanation of why the elite structure in the transition to capitalism is different from the incumbent elites in the former Soviet Union. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Figures, Tables, Graphs, and Appendices
	Acknowledgements
1	Soviet Society: Institutional Polyarchy	3
2	The CPSU Ruling Elite, 1966-1991	25
3	The Central Committee Apparat, 1981-1991	47
4	The Government Bureaucracy	59
5	The Supreme Soviet of the USSR: From Fusion to Fission	73
6	The Political Elite under Gorbachev: Cohesion and Division	89
7	The Ascendant Elite: Yeltsin and the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation, 1990-1993	127
8	Mutation: the Political Elite, 1991-1995. Reproduction or Circulation?	143
9	The Economic Elite, 1991-1996: Reproduction or Circulation?	167
10	Transition under Yeltsin: Elite Values	183
11	Conclusions	199
App. 1	Biographies of Soviet and Russian Political and Economic Leaders	206
	Notes	223
	Index	255

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Integrated Value Management

Author: Peter Gomez

This book is one of the first to deal with raising the value of a company by exploiting all its internal and external potentials. Integrated Value Management takes a holistic approach to corporate strategy. This is unusual in management books, which tend to bias themselves towards one particular paradigm or field of management. It deliberately presents a European perspective against the more commonly found American approach to management, and backs this up through the selection of case studies which illustrate the theories. The book exemplifies theory through easily understood practical examples emphasising application.