Nouvelle classe

Nouvelle classe est une expression utilisée pour décrire les privilèges de la classe dirigeante dans un régime communiste, soit la Nomenklatura, les apparatchiks et les divers bureaucrates.

L'expression apparaît pour la première fois dans le titre d'un ouvrage du yougoslave Milovan Djilas, publié en 1957 aux États-Unis : The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System.

Bibliographie

• (en) Milovan Đilas, The New Class : An Analysis of the Communist System, San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983, 1957, paperback éd., 214 p., poche (ISBN 978-0-15-665489-0, LCCN 82025859).
• (en) Milovan Đilas (trans. Dorian Cooke), The Unperfect Society : Beyond the New Class, New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969 (ISBN 978-0-15-693125-0, OCLC 6779, LCCN 70076568).
• (en) Milovan Đilas, Fall of the New Class : A History of Communism's Self-destruction, ???, Alfred A. Knopf, 1998, hardcover éd., 383 p. (ISBN 978-0-679-43325-5, LCCN 97049420). See also the NY Times Books feature with Chapter One online, and also the May 10, 1998 NY Times book review.
• (en) Leon Trotsky, The Revolution Betrayed : What is the Soviet Union and where is it Going?, Détroit, Labor Publications, 1991, 1937, paperback éd., 322 p., poche (ISBN 978-0-929087-48-1, OCLC 24188450, lire en ligne) Leon Trotsky's famous work considers the alleged betrayal and corruption of the Russian Revolution by Stalin and the new bureaucratic ruling caste.
• (en) Marian (ed.) Sawer, Socialism and the New Class : Towards the Analysis of Structural Inequality Within Socialist Societies, Bedford Park, Australia, Australasian Political Studies Association, 1978, 83 p. (ISBN 978-0-7258-0074-1, LCCN 79308595).
• (en) F. A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1994, 1944, paperback éd., 274 p., poche (ISBN 978-0-226-32061-8, LCCN 94027675).
• (en) Robert D. Kaplan, Balkan Ghosts : A Journey through History, New York, St. Martin's Press, 1993, 1^re éd., 307 p. (ISBN 978-0-312-08701-2, LCCN 92043300, lire en ligne).
• A meta-list of relevant publications. Related to (en) Richard Barbrook, The Class of the New, Londres, OpenMute, 2006, paperback éd., 116 p., poche (ISBN 978-0-9550664-7-4, lire en ligne).
• (en) George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984, 1949, paperback éd., 314 p. (ISBN 978-0-15-166038-4, LCCN 83018442).
• (en) Alvin Ward Gouldner, The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class : A Frame of Reference, Theses, Conjectures, Arguments, and an Historical Perspective on the Role of Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in the International Class Contest of the Modern Era, New York, Seabury Press, 1979, 121 p. (ISBN 978-0-8164-9358-6, LCCN 78024442)
• (en) Hansfried Kellner et and Frank W. Heuberger (eds.), Hidden Technocrats : The New Class and New Capitalism, New Brunswick, Transaction Publishers, 1992, 1^re éd., 246 p. (ISBN 978-0-88738-443-1, LCCN 91012907).
• (en) Christopher Lasch, The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy, New York, W. W. Norton, 1995, 1^re éd., 276 p. (ISBN 978-0-393-03699-2, LCCN 94037270).
• (en) Grace Budrys, When Doctors Join Unions, Ithaca, ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 1997, 177 p., poche (ISBN 978-0-8014-8354-7, LCCN 96032596, lire en ligne).

Articles

• Registan (October 1/06) - The "New Class": The Rise and Fall of NGOs in Central Asia. Quotes extensively from a presentation by Laurence Jarvik to the Central Eurasian Studies Society, held the University of Michigan. Founding editor Nathan Hamm was a Peace Corps volunteer in Uzbekistan.
• Mutualist.Org - Liberalism & Social Control: The New Class' Will to Power. Most New Class criticism comes explicitly from either the Left or the Right. Rarely does one seem to come from both at once.
• The New Criterion (October 1999) - Remembering Milovan Djilas.
• The New York Review of Books (December 7/67) - Same Old New Class. A reply by Christopher Lasch.