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They have tried everything, from nationalism to regionalism, from communism to capitalism.
So chirped many in Prague in November 1989, reflecting the pride and the joy of the Velvet Revolution, but also the sustained effort that was needed to end communism, whose demise began in Warsaw the previous February.
As the Soviet Union weakened, social unrest grew, culminating in the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism throughout Central and Eastern Europe.
The collapse of communism in Europe, followed by that of the Soviet Union in 1991, was described triumphantly in Europe and the United States as the “end of history” – the global triumph of liberal democracy and free-market capitalism.
Russia After And Between ElectionsMOSCOW: Communism has made a comeback and yet calm prevails in Russia, that is the curious result of the elections a fortnight ago.
The end of Communism removed one important reason: the Soviet Union’s expansionist thrust and the Western democracies’ determination to resist it.
In retrospect, one might ask whether it was NATO or US economic and political support that prevented Western Europe from embracing communism.
Europe’s Red-Tape EconomyWARSAW – Over the past 60 years, the project of European integration has confronted many challenges: post-war economic hardships, the heavy yoke of communism, and the uncertain footing of the post-Cold War world.
"Pioneros por el comunismo, seremos como el Che!(Pioneers for Communism, like Che we shall be!)," we repeated day after day before starting class.
If these institutions have decayed under years of communism and the more recent liberal permissiveness -- note how quickly liberalism and communism become identified as the twin children of the Enlightenment in the eyes of their opponents!
On the one hand, human-rights ideology – and it is an ideology, every bit as much as Communism was or neo-liberalism is today – is profoundly legalist, claiming legitimacy from treaties and other international and national instruments.
China’s problems arise mainly from widening income disparities, which are inciting hitherto unheard of levels of labor unrest – though this should not be viewed as a precursor to change of the sort that marked the rise of the Solidarity trade union and the end of communism in Poland.
If China replaces its eroded communism with nationalism or ensure social cohesion, the result could be a more aggressive foreign policy and unwillingness to deal with issues like climate change.
That is, there were two rival economic systems, communism and capitalism; and there was a seemingly permanent division of the world into rich and poor nations.
There is a session entitled "21st century economics: beyond capitalism and communism" -- as if that were still a live rivalry.
There is, of course, no longer any question of a conflict between communism and capitalism.
The real contenders among economic and political systems seem to be a relatively humane welfare-state capitalism -- which is the system that defeated Communism, but which seems to be falling apart in both Europe and North America; a raw frontier-style capitalism, with few protections for the unlucky -- a system that seems to be the objective of conservatives in the United States, and may be the eventual outcome in much of Europe; and an oligarchy in which the power of the state is used to further the interests of the elite, with little pretense of either socialism or democracy -- the system that now prevails in China and to a lesser extent in some other Asian developing countries, and that could easily become the future of much of the former Soviet Empire.
After all, the Soviet Union collapsed not because of Ronald Reagan’s military build-up in the 1980’s, with which communism was unable to compete, but because the Soviet command economy had already become obsolete in the 1970’s.
The Velvet DelusionCOLLEGE STATION, TEXAS – With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the relatively non-violent overthrow of communism throughout Central and Eastern Europe, optimists predicted a new golden age of a world filled with peaceful democracies.
“Earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks,” Obama preached in his famous campaign speech in Berlin, “but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions.”
In the prison world of communism, a person was the property of the state, but the state took care of one’s existence.
Never since the fall of communism had a Catholic Cardinal used such words of condemnation.
In the mid-1950’s, communism was on the offensive in Europe, as well as in the emerging Third World.
The Poles demanded communism with a human face, and the Hungarians, after Imre Nagy sought to reform communism, ended up wanting no communism at all.
The Soviet Union and other socialist countries faced a crisis of faith, as the main threat to communism was not imperialism, or ideological dissidents, but the movement’s own intellectual poverty and disillusion.
But, for those in the West overtaken by fatalism and self-doubt, a message of hope is now emanating from the Arab Spring, and from the resumption in Russia of the unfinished revolution that ended communism.
Since communism's fall, the nations of Central and Eastern Europe have undergone exhilarating yet wrenching transitions.
In other places, massive outmigration occurred in the context of political change, as in Europe when communism collapsed.
The fall of communism in the former Soviet bloc coincided with the reinvigoration of Western democracies in the 1980s.
For Asia, the most important consequence of the fall of the Berlin Wall was that the collapse of communism produced a shift from the primacy of military power to economic power in shaping the international order.
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