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Yeltsin will make it in history if he opens an offensive against all those, like the communists, who have no agenda, rather than allowing reformers to be discredited by the lack of economic reform.
It has to build a normal economy otherwise the latent radicalism of communists, tsarists and fascists will destroy all hope for a stable economy and society.
Many argued at the time that support for republican Spain meant helping the far more dangerous anarchists and Communists at a time when the Soviet threat in Europe was growing.
In Germany, the still-fragile democratic order was shaken by radicalism on both the left (communists) and the right (nationalists), which reflected external challenges, such as the Cold War, and internal pressures, including the first post-war recession and rising unemployment.
In 1936, when communists allied with socialists in Léon Blum’s Popular Front, and pushed through wage increases and reductions in working hours, another franc crisis erupted, and, within two years, the center right was back in power.
Today ought to be a golden age for center-right parties: Communists and Socialists have self-destructed, free markets are spreading as inexorably as globalization, and prosperity beckons.
Even top communists appear to acknowledge and embrace change.
It looks like that the communists together with their possible fellow-travelers will control close to half of the Duma seats.
Another reason is that V. Zhirinovsky proved to be a paper tiger, while the communists now appear to be not so bad after all.
Here the return of communists to power in Eastern Europe, where they have not reversed reforms (though they have slowed them) may be providing false assurance.
Besieged by Communists or Islamists, people feel a sense of belonging.
This is one reason why, after Mao Zedong’s communists triumphed in China in 1949 and other Asian nations gained independence, most Asian countries adopted protectionist inward-looking economic policies aimed at building domestic strength, keeping the “imperialists” out, and achieving self-reliance.
That’s a real crisis for Communists.”
But if the goal is merely for the communists to retain their monopoly on power, in both Hong Kong and China, then the rot that has settled into Hong Kong's polity and its economy may begin to infect the mainland.
The same phrases were used by Communists when Geremek criticized their misrule.
But guilty communists were not punished, and virtuous Solidarity activists were not rewarded.
All of these protests were brutally crushed, which resulted in many West European Communists leaving the Party in utter disillusion.
The Communists at first hoped to coopt some Solidarity activists, without legalizing the movement.
What nobody anticipated was that the crushing defeat of the Communists at the polls for all but one of the seats we were allowed to contest made it impossible for the Communists to form a new government, even if the numerical majorities were still on their side.
Ukrainians know what to blame, while more Russians are confused as reflected in the high vote for Russian communists in last July's presidential elections.
The communists are keeping the globalization faith; but the capitalists seem to have lost theirs.
But, strange irony, this civility is due to the remnants of the social protections left behind by the distinctly uncivilized communists.
I was reminded of Poland’s “roundtable” in 1989, when Solidarity sat with the ruling communists to negotiate the end of the regime.
Very few people can remember who led the postwar German neo-Nazis and Communists.
As a result, some people nowadays dismiss the Prague Spring as a power struggle between communists.
Alexander Dubcek, the leader of the Czechoslovak communists and the symbol of the Prague Spring, personified hope for democratic evolution, real pluralism, and a peaceful way to a state governed by law and respectful of human rights.
It never occurred to the ruling communists (or to Solidarity) that they might lose.
On that bright Sunday morning, as spring turned to summer, voters wasted little time in dispatching Poland’s communists to the abattoir.
On their dying day, Poland’s communists managed one last perversity, a final and unwitting act of utter self-humiliation.
By contrast, the communists’ campaign was all but invisible.
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