End of Social Inequality?

Professor David Lane is an Emeritus Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, UK, and previously was Professor of Sociology at the University of Birmingham. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He has published widely on state socialist societies, the USSR, Marxism, elites, class and social stratification; his current research focuses on transformation, globalization, ‘varieties of capitalism’, neoliberalism, alternatives to capitalism, the enlargement of the European Union and the formation of the Eurasian Union.

• 1. The Impact of Marxist Ideas in Russia Before and After the October Revolution 2. Social Inequality: Soviet Sociology’s Interpretation of the Social Structure 3. Social Inequality: Hierarchy and Privilege 4. Social Mobility and Political Class 5. Class, Cleavage and Control 6. Conclusions