ABSTRACT
The collapse of the Soviet state and the ensuing weakness of the new institutions redefined the symbolic and behavioural parameters of the elites. The state became the subject of restructuring and continuous elite networking, inducing apparent anomalies in the elites’ orientations. In the preceding chapters these were analysed along the following dimensions: (1) democracyauthoritarianism; (2) state-market; (3) centralised-decentralised federalism; (4) legal-clientelistic norms; and (5) network behaviour.
