ABSTRACT
The political transformation and mutation accompanied a disintegrating economy and socio-cultural entropy, a lethal combination for any political society and political system. The basis of pluralism was laid down during Perestroika by officially accepting pluralism within the Party, its leadership and the society. The pluralism then manifested itself in organised, semi-organised and disparate forms thereby making the single-party political system something of an anachronism. The ethno-social tensions in Central Asia have been continuing for a long time and have particularly acquired greater proportions in post-Soviet era. National divisions of Central Asia has been a more modern 20th Century phenomenon. Former Communist Party of the Soviet Union re-emerged in the form of different communist and socialist parties and groups representing different nuances of left-wing politics in Russia. Several electoral blocs emerged in December 1993 with many of those leaders who had played important political role in the former Soviet Union, particularly under Perestroika.
