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In the context of understanding elite dynamics in Serbia, elite theories are overviewed & a definition of elites proffered before discussing how class & elite theoretical perspectives are applied to the study of state socialist collapse & consequent social change. Arguing that it is not useful to speak of elite circulation & reproduction, a distinction is drawn between the failure of the nomenklatura as the former ruling class & a new class structuration wherein elites play a formative role. Favored is the idea of the "adaptive reconstruction of elites." How members of the socialist ruling class used a "blocked transformation" in the former Yugoslavia to convert their monopolistic positions into focused forms of economic & political capital more suitable to postsocialist conditions is demonstrated. The dynamics of personnel reconstruction are addressed, along with the reconstruction of material positions of social strata. Attention turns to how shifts in elite reproduction processes have gone together with an ideological shift. It is concluded that this process of elite reconstruction underpins a new social order whereby old socialist cadres & outsiders will form the heart of a new ruling class. 5 Tables, 19 References. J. Zendejas

In the context of understanding elite dynamics in Serbia, elite theories are overviewed & a definition of elites proffered before discussing how class & elite theoretical perspectives are applied to the study of state socialist collapse & consequent social change. Arguing that it is not useful to speak of elite circulation & reproduction, a distinction is drawn between the failure of the nomenklatura as the former ruling class & a new class structuration wherein elites play a formative role. Favored is the idea of the "adaptive reconstruction of elites." How members of the socialist ruling class used a "blocked transformation" in the former Yugoslavia to convert their monopolistic positions into focused forms of economic & political capital more suitable to postsocialist conditions is demonstrated. The dynamics of personnel reconstruction are addressed, along with the reconstruction of material positions of social strata. Attention turns to how shifts in elite reproduction processes have gone together with an ideological shift. It is concluded that this process of elite reconstruction underpins a new social order whereby old socialist cadres & outsiders will form the heart of a new ruling class. 5 Tables, 19 References. J. Zendejas