ABSTRACT
The post-socialist transformation in Serbia followed a specific pattern, started in the late 1980s, it was blocked during the 1990s, only to gain new momentum after the year 2000. During the blocked transformation period, systemic changes were not frozen, but rather remarkably slowed down, unfolding under the control of former nomenklatura members. Value orientations of the middle class in Serbia will be tackled because people's believe that values represent a critical point of both the beginnings of post-socialist transformation and its more advanced stage. The middle class played the key role in toppling the socialist regimes in Central and East European states and was also the predominant source for the recruitment of new political and economic elites that led the process of post-socialist transformation in these countries. Majority support to liberal-democratic values registered among the members of the Serbian middle class largely accounts for the decisive role they had in the social movement.
