FORMATION AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE SOVIET TECHNOCRATIC ELITE

Abstract

In the 1980-s technocratic elite became the main subject of the social order transformation in our country. Most industrial man- agement appeared to be the supporters of the existed social relations’ reforms. The first stage of the so called perestroika (“acceleration”) had the technocratic character. Immediate results of economic reforms of the 1980-s allowed domestic technocrats considerably making their positions strong. The pressure of industrial managers became the most important factor in the fina choice of privatization and ad-justment of the Russian government course at the beginning of the 1990-s. Technocratic bureaucracy also came in between nomencla- ture and “democrats” in the process of new authoritative elites’ formation. In the middle of the 1990-s domestic technocracy definitely cycled came back to the original point in a sense.