Making and breaking the political machine in Kabardino-Balkaria

Three very different forces are contesting social powers in the North Caucasus republics: the ex-nomenklatura from the 1980s reliant on their administrative skills, insider knowledge, and patronage networks; political capitalists or "oligarchs" wielding the weapons of violent entrepreneurs...

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Published in:Demokratizatsiya (Washington, D.C.) D.C.), 2013-09, Vol.21 (4), p.531-557
Main Authors: Derluguian, Georgi, Zhemukhov, Sufian
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Capitalism
Caucasus
Elite (Social sciences)
Entrepreneurship
Ideology
Islam
Patronage
Politics
Revolutions
Social Movements
Social Power
Subsidies
Violence
Weapons
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Summary:Three very different forces are contesting social powers in the North Caucasus republics: the ex-nomenklatura from the 1980s reliant on their administrative skills, insider knowledge, and patronage networks; political capitalists or "oligarchs" wielding the weapons of violent entrepreneurship developed in the 1990s; and the social movement of young Islamist zealots rising from the mid- and lower strata in the 2000s. While the fractured elites of ex-nomenklatura and violent entrepreneurs are common results of the Soviet collapse, in the North Caucasus the cultural legacies of Islamic highlanders provided the ideological framing, transnational brokerage, and action repertoire to the third force of antisystemic rebels. The stalemated triangular contention, however, is fraught with state collapse rather than revolution.
ISSN:1074-6846
1940-4603