D.V. Voronin
Competition of Administrative and Political Elite with Technocratic Elite in Conditions of Crisis and Dissolution of Soviet Administrative System (the Latter Half of 1980s - the Beginning of 1990s)
The paper considers relationship between administrative and political elite and technocratic elite in the condition of crisis and dissolution of the Soviet regional administrative system.
The author specifies that both party state nomenklatura and technocratic elite represented by economic executives competed with each other for the role and place in the period when fundamental issues in socio-economic, and in political spheres were solved.
Key words: party and state nomenklatura, confrontation, social crisis, perestroika, privatization.