Elites and Systematic Change in Hungary
Elites and Systematic Change in Hungary

Summary/Abstract: Radical political changes have been launched essentially by a new elite which emerged out of the Kadarist institutions in Hungary. They are the famous beat generation, the "great generation" - mostly those who are in their forties today - who already occupied the lower and medium levels of the different (state, party and enterprise) bureaucracies before May 1988. After May 1988 they swiftly invaded the power positions in politics and economics. Important decision-making positions had already been in their hands; many of them already occupied significant bureaucratic, banking, financial and managerial positions. They have completed the process of taking power by the removal of the old elite, the advocates of order. Let us call them subsequently traditional new elites.

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