Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe

SILVIU BRUCAN has had a long and distinguished career as an activist, diplomat, and scholar. He participated in the anti-fascist underground during World War II and was a leading dissident of the Ceausescu dictatorship and one of the leaders of the revolution of December 1989. He served as Romania's ambassador to the United States (1956-59) and to the United Nations (1959-62). He is the author of six earlier books in English, including The Wasted Generation and Pluralism and Social Conflict (Praeger, 1990).

Introduction Social Structure in Communist States Nomenklatura: Class or Social Group? Subordinated Classes Leasership and Apparat Decline of the Working Class In Capitalism In Socialism Communist Reaction to New Technologies The Odyssey of the Manual Worker Where the Market Squeezed In The Political Verdict of Social Differentiation The New Social Structure after 1989 1990 and 1991: Petrification of the Old Structure in Romania The First Social Earthquake The Dislocation Process Introduction to the Middle Class The Middle Class: Key Factor in Market Reform Russia without a Middle Class A "Wild Middle Class" in Romania Millionaires in Five Years! How Did They Do It? The Symbiosis Power-Capital The Social Condition of Integration in NATO and European Community Epilogue: Whither Russia and Eastern Europe? Notes