ABSTRACT
In the past decade, the rapid development of the market economy has produced new socioeconomic groups whose rights and interests are not understood or protected by the existing system. Centralleaders have had to use indirect methods of assessing changing public expectations from a growing plurality of social strata. J As society continues to outgrow the Leninist bureaucratic structures intended to contain and control it, central authorities are uncertain how to cope with the new constraints on their authority created by commercialization and cultural impact from the outside.
