The article is devoted to the analysis of the issue of system ecology of the political transformations connected with the role and sociopolitical practice of the power elite in the context of Bonapartism genesis. Emphasis has been made on the characteristic late development of the social environment in relation to the rate of political changes and the dynamics of mental patterns dominating in society. The polyvalency of modern Bonapartism determines the ambiguity of a new format of the elite consensus, the structure of society and development of the social environment.