Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: Elite Change and Democratic Regimes in Eastern Europe; J.Higley, J.Pakulski & W.Wesolowski - The Russian Political Elites, 1991-1995. Recruitment and Renewal; D.Lane & C.Ross - Elite Cohesion and Division: Transition in Gorbachev's Russia; D.Lane - Elite Conceptions of Russia's Present and Future; L.V.Babayeva - Elites, Institutions, and Political Change in East Central Europe: Germany, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia; T.A.Baylis - Czech and Slovak Political and Parliamentary Elites; L.Brokl & Z.Mansfeldova - Elite Transformation and Democratic Consolidation in Germany after 1945 and 1989; U.Hoffmann-Lange - Elite Circulation and Consolidation of Democracy in Poland; J.Wasilewski - A Self-Portrait of the Polish Political Elite; I.Pankow - The Hungarian Economic Elite in the First Half of the 1990s; G.Lengyel - Bulgaria: A Quasi-Elite; S.E.Nikolov - Electoral Politics in Eastern Europe: Social and Ideological Influences on Partisanship in Post-Communist Societies; S.Whitefield & G.Evans - The Relationship Between Elites and the Working Class: On Coupling, Uncoupling, Democracy and (In)equality; E.Etzioni-Halevy - Elites and Decommunization in Eastern Europe; C.G.Enriquez - Index
