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When the extremes of the political spectrum became radicalized, as they did in the interwar period - the anti-international right moved to fascism, the left to communism - democratic politics became paralyzed.
Consider, for example, that the first insider-trading case tried in Russia after the fall of communism was against an American firm.
After the Communists seized power in China in 1949, the US openly viewed Chinese Communism as benign, and thus distinct from Soviet Communism.
When the Bolsheviks replaced Russia’s oppressive monarchy with communism in 1917, Vladimir Lenin’s “dictatorship of the proletariat” still left room for the leader not only to have a wife, but to let her have a public role.
Nikita Khrushchev’s 1950’s thaw allowed for his wife, Nina, to accompany him on trips abroad, presenting a homey image of communism with a human face.
After the fall of Soviet-style communism, the IFIs admitted Russia and the other former Soviet republics (as well as China) on the assumption that they were each on a path to embracing democracy and a rules-based market economy.
It returned as an animating and unifying force with the collapse of communism and the Balkan wars of a decade ago.
Today, there is no longer international communism, or, for that matter, French communism.
Communism had left Poland politically and economically bankrupt.
Communism, still wrapped in the laurel leaf of anti-fascism, had a wide intellectual and emotional appeal, not only in the so-called Third World, but also in Western Europe.
WARSAW: The shipyard of Gdansk, birthplace of Solidarity and cradle of the revolution against communism, is poised to go into bankruptcy.
In a sad irony they seem to have been proven right only recently, when democracy’s greatest triumph, the defeat of totalitarian communism, also ushered in a world of deracinated commitments.
The only other time it has happened in recent decades was in Russia after the collapse of communism, and in Africa after the outbreak of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Fascism and Soviet communism were constructed on the backs off unwilling people.
A second possible meaning is also too narrow, as it refers to the European countries spared the experience of communism, most of which are members of the European Union.
Since the 1990’s, therefore, nationalism has replaced Communism as the justification for the one-party state, which requires stirring up anti-Western – above all, anti-Japanese – sentiment.
LONDON – Europe’s emerging markets have this year experienced their worst output collapse since the great “transitional recession” that followed the end of communism.
But is the transition from communism to a market economy itself in crisis?
It confirmed the view that the transition from communism is about much more than building markets and shifting economic responsibilities from the state to the private sector.
In St. Petersburg, the stone is complemented with inscriptions, such as "To the victims of Communism."
Far more than Nazism, Communism belongs to our common European heritage.
So when things go wrong, the Chinese are blamed, not just for being greedy capitalists, but also, again like the Jews, for being Communists, since both capitalism and communism are associated with rootlessness and cosmopolitanism.
After the various revolutions in the early decades of the twentieth century, Confucianism was replaced by a Chinese version of Communism.
In fact, since the fall of communism, the percentage decline in German industrial employment has been larger than in any other OECD country.
An obvious historical parallel for today is the interwar period of the twentieth century, when Vladimir Lenin presented Soviet communism as a global brand, and founded the Communist International.
As a social anthropologist who trained in Eastern Europe in the waning years of communism, I observed firsthand what happens to a society devoid of civic trust.
The digital age has created an insularity that, ironically, is not unlike that fostered under communism.
In 1989 and 1990, as communism collapsed and glasnost took hold, many Russians hungrily sought the "facts."
Many now find it difficult to know what to make of seven decades of communism.
But some other countries sloughing off the skin of communism are only too ready to adopt a new history--even one based on fancy and invention--to suit current needs.
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