Abstract

To act or to endure : the Polish and Czech nomenklaturas faced with major economic change (1988-1993). The communist nomenklatura took the opportunity offered by the circumstances and their positions to profit by the change of regime - which, paradoxically, benefited them more than any other social group, even more than those on behalf of whom (workers, intellectuals) and by whom (human rights activists, democratic opposition, partisans of economic liberalism) the soviet-type social system was overthrown. The authors conducted an empirical study (interviews with members of the former nomenklatura, converted to the private entreprise) in order to test the hypothesis of the existence of two different models of conversion, the first consisting in anticipation strategies (Hungary, Poland), the second in strategies of mere survival (Czech republic).

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