Russia/Soviet Union

Armstrong, John A., Russian Imperial Bureaucracy, 1762-1881: Online Data Archive http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/Russia/index.html

Devlin, Judith, The Rise of the Russian Democrats: The Causes and Consequences of the Elite Revolution (Aldershot, 1995)

Lane, David Stuart, and Cameron Ross, ‘Russian Political Elites, 1991-1995: Recruitment and Renewal,’ International Politics 34 (1997), 169-92.

Lane, David Stuart, and Cameron Ross, The Transition from Communism to Capitalism: Ruling Elites from Gorbachev to Yeltsin (New York, 1999)

LeDonne, John P., ‘The Ruling Class: Tsarist Russia as the Perfect Model,’ International Social Science Journal 136 (1993), 285-300.

Mawdsley, Evan, and Stephen White, The Soviet Elite from Lenin to Gorbachev (Oxford, 2000)

Orwell, George, Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (London, 1945)

Plamper, Jan, ‘The Russian Orthodox Episcopate, 1721-1917: A Prosopography,’ Journal of Social History 34 (2000), 5-34

Poe, Marshall T., ‘Elite Service Registry in Muscovy, 1500-1700,’ Russian History/Histoire Russe 21 (1994), 251-88

Poe, Marshall T., The Russian Elite in the Seventeenth Century: A Quantative Analysis of the “Duma Records” 1613-1713

http:// www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~mpoe/StatBK.pdf

Poe, Marshall T., The Russian Elite in the Seventeenth Century: The Consular and Ceremonial Ranks of the Russian “Sovereign’s Court”, 1613-1713

http:// www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~mpoe/AnnualCompBD.pdf

White, Stephen, and Olga Kryshtanovskaya, ‘Russia: Elite Continuity and Change,’ in Dogan and Higley, eds., Elites, pp. 125-46.