Carol Skalnik Leff is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, the Department of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and the Department of Global Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is also the author of Elite Transformation in Post-Communist Europe.
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