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Soviet communism was doomed long before then, when, as Amalrik predicted, the communist myth finally died in the hearts and minds of ordinary people and officials alike.
Stalin thrived on the barbaric forced industrialization that planted the seeds of the communist system’s destruction.
After all, the ruling communist oligarchs have grown accustomed to a comfortable lifestyle.
That silence is being rewarded with the first-ever joint cabinet sessions between a democracy and a communist dictatorship, which will take place in Berlin this autumn.
Magris’s main character is a rebel in more than one embodiment: as Salvatore Cipico, one of the inmates in the communist concentration camp in Yugoslavia; as Jurgen Jurgensen, ephemeral king of Iceland and a convict forced to build his own jail; and as Jason, the mythic adventurer searching for the volatile truth.
Khmer Rouge soldiers beat her father to death, and she remembers being shot at for sport by communist cadres as she and dozens of other peasants scuttled up a mountainside.
Although the Communist Party’s leader, Gennadi Zyuganov, and the Liberal Democrats’ Vladimir Zhirinovsky are running – in contrast to 2004, when they fielded stand-ins – neither will get more than 15% of the vote.
While many of the most important governors support removing the Communist majority from the State Duma to ensure less ideologically and more regionally based governance, they are divided on other crucial issues.
Since 1945, it has been an oddity: a hereditary communist dictatorship whose legitimacy rests on its claim to be the vanguard of Korean nationalism.
The Drug War on WomenNEW YORK – When I was growing up in communist Poland, International Women’s Day was viewed as an opportunity to celebrate women’s contributions and accomplishments.
And, because he wants to portray CEU as “un-Hungarian,” he usually neglects to mention that he himself received a Soros-funded scholarship to study at Oxford soon after the collapse of Hungary’s communist regime.
Hong Kong’s people were never asked: Would they be interested in ‘returning’ to a Communist China which many of them have fled over the decades of Communist rule?
Nowadays, the country's communist leaders acted as if they believed that disclosing SARS would risk tarnishing China's "economic miracle" and driving away foreign direct investment--some $50 billion last year, or 80% of all FDI made in Asia.
It began to increase later that decade, and grew rapidly after eight formerly communist countries joined the EU in 2004, when Britain – unlike, for instance, France and Germany – waived its right to impose a seven-year delay before allowing free movement of people from the new member states.
The third phase began immediately after the 1969 Sino-Soviet military clashes, with the US actively seeking to exploit the rift in the Communist world by aligning China with its anti-Soviet strategy.
On the contrary, they need to stand together against the Communist threat.
In fact, even economists in communist dictatorships could proffer their best technical advice with a comparatively clean conscience, because they were convinced that introducing more market-mediated outcomes would inject efficiency into planned economies and increase the sphere of individual freedom.
But this was not a farfetched transformation in a city where people were assuming new identities – such as Nasserist, Baathist, Islamist, or communist – downplaying their regional and tribal origins.
Total haircuts don’t happen historically – except in the wake of communist takeovers – but it is hard to imagine that private creditors won’t suffer huge losses in net present value.
The protests of April 2009 were triggered by the Communist Party’s claim to have won a third consecutive term in power, following an aggressive election campaign with widespread abuses.
The then Communist government cracked down on protesters, leaving at least one person dead, while numerous allegations of widespread torture further traumatized and divided Moldovan society.
Romania's International Center for Entrepreneurial Studies (ICES) found that most business associations were captive to either government-owned enterprises or to firms privatized by the former communist nomenklatura.
China Stuck in the NetThere is nothing "virtual" about the problems China's communist rulers confront with the internet.
While Western observers rejoiced over the victory of Boris Yeltsin, parties tied to the communist past still control Russia's Duma.
In the final weeks of Communist rule, Mazowiecki helped to establish a model for negotiated political transition that still informs, inspires, and guides other societies on the cusp of change.
Gradually, the balance of advantage swung away from the Communist leadership – especially after Mikhail Gorbachev took over as Soviet leader – and back toward Solidarity.
The price of a smooth transition was also that many members of the Communist regime – including Jaruzelski – were not held accountable for their crimes while in power.
In its first decades, communist China built its military strength and simultaneously used the soft power of Maoist revolutionary doctrine and Third World solidarity to cultivate allies abroad.
Dmitri Likhachev, one of Russia's most respected intellectuals in the communist era, said that there is no such thing as the Russian soul; "we can create whatever future we want."
Professor Yu Keping, an influential Communist official and author of a prominent book called Democracy Is a Good Thing, is said to have the ear of President Hu.
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