Patterns In Postsoviet Leadership

Introduction -- Post-Soviet Leadership and Change -- Political Elites Under Gorbachev and Yeltsin in the Early Period of Transition: A Reputational and Analytical Study -- Boris Yeltsin, Russia's All-Thumbs Democrat -- Ruslan Khasbulatov, Aleksandr Rutskoi, and Intraelite Conflict in Postcommunist Russia, 1991-1994 -- The Conceptual President: Leonid Kravchuk and the Politics of Surrealism -- Post-Soviet Political Leadership in Lithuania -- Elite Transformation in Late-Soviet and Post-Soviet Transcaucasia, or What Happens When the Ruling Class Can't Rule? -- Nursultan Nazarbaev and the Balancing Act of State Building in Kazakhstan -- Islam Karimov and Uzbekistan: Back to the Future? -- Leadership in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan: The Views of the Led -- Conclusion