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Stubborn Structures. Reconceptualizing Post-Communist Regimes
Europe-Asia Studies, 2021How should we think about post-communist regimes and what can be learnt about them by exploring their unique features? Stubborn Structures.
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2019
Political terror has often been viewed as a distinguishing hallmark of Communist regimes—neither unique to them nor ubiquitous but so characteristic as to evoke stereotypes of purges. Gulag, and brainwashing. In public attention to the use of terror in Communist systems has been eclipsed by dramatic instances of anti-regime terrorism by a variety of ...
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Political terror has often been viewed as a distinguishing hallmark of Communist regimes—neither unique to them nor ubiquitous but so characteristic as to evoke stereotypes of purges. Gulag, and brainwashing. In public attention to the use of terror in Communist systems has been eclipsed by dramatic instances of anti-regime terrorism by a variety of ...
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Evaluation of the Communist Regime
1998Eight years after the old regimes were ousted — either through pacted transitions retroactively ratified in elections or “velvet revolutions” — communism in East-Central Europe is generally seen as having had both its good and bad sides. Only a minority of respondents in the reform countries see communism as having been mainly positive (Hungary ...
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Jehovah's Witnesses under Communist Regimes
Religion, State and Society, 2002(2002). Jehovah's Witnesses under Communist Regimes. Religion, State and Society: Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 229-238.
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The Democratic Claims of Communist Regime Leaders
Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 2021Communist authoritarian regimes born of revolution claim that their rule is democratic, sponsoring elections that, even if uncompetitive, may supplement their claims to rule if the outcome rewards the most-voted with high posts and sidelines the lower-voted.
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Popular Opinion Under Communist Regimes
2013The totalitarian nature of communist states is generally understood to exclude the existence of a public sphere sufficiently independent of the state to allow the expression of a range of opinions. However, popular opinion, if not a public sphere, did exist and it was monitored extensively by these states, since leaders needed to know about popular ...
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Misconceptions Regarding Communist Regime and Post-Communist Reform in Russia
Human Systems Management, 1995In a still commonly held view in Western Europe, North America and some other parts of the world, the Soviet Revolution of 1917 is interpreted as endogenously Russian and benefitting the poor, and the post-communist reform of the early 1990s is seen as chaotic.
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An Economic Approach to Communist Regimes
Kyklos, 1992A communist regime is at first defined as a problem of collective action. The authors will show how trust-based exchanges between communist leaders and individuals could overcome Olson's dilemma; on the contrary, after having lost popular trust, communist leaders are confronted with property rights-based exchanges which lead to very extensive "free ...
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Historical Legacies and Post-Communist Regime Change
The Journal of Politics, 2007This article shows that post-communist regime trajectories have been largely circumscribed by historical legacy differences, but the question about which particular legacy matters most is much harder to answer, since statistical results are sensitive to model specification and to the choice of democracy indicator.
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