The End of Social Inequality (1982) examines class and social stratification under state socialism and in particular in the Soviet Union. Its discussion ranges over such aspects as income and education differentials, the rise of white-collar occupations, the position of women and ethnic groups, and social mobility.

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.