In this paper, social networks perspective is applied to the analysis of biographies of the ex-Komsomol
and ex-Party activists who are among of the Ukrainian political elite nowadays.
There are two main questions to be answered:
(i) whether these actors who are members of Ukrainian political elite have common biographical expe-
rience they can rely on; (ii) whether their network positions make them in
fluential, or are they so-called ‘central players’ within
their subnetwork and overall network of political elite.