So, how well did the Communist elite live all these years?

The personal links are strongest among the country's Communist elite, starting right at the top.

The desired qualifications were intelligence, energy, idealism and no connection to the old Communist elite.

This allows the old Communist elite to remain in political power while permitting certain free markets to flourish.

The Communist elite could pull strings to send children to the public school of their choice, and now so can the business elite.

Even among the Communist elite, the term appears to be waning.

After the war, her father became a member of the Communist political elite and left his daughter in the care of her grandparents.

The Communist elite, in short, is face to face with the idea of sharing power; many of its members see no other way out.

These events led to the interesting situation that bluegrass and folk music was considered politically subversive by some of the Communist elite.

The answer to this question still needs to be found in the self-seeking ambitions of the Communist elite from the late 1980s.