After the fall of communism in 1989, most Socialist monuments from around Eastern Europe were torn down.
Stolypin was assassinated, Nicholas II murdered by the Bolsheviks and Russia plunged into 73 years of communism.
As a child in 1919, he had seen how communism stifled growth in Hungary.
Communism kills in practice, but maintains an allure in theory because fools still fall for it.
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Judt also cites the fall of Communism and the end of the Cold War.
Like communism, the doctrine of socialism demands state ownership and equal distribution of wealth.
The electorate, in its collective wisdom, had understood the fundamental nature of Communism all along.
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Was this because Communism had become much more evil during the intervening four years?
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During the final 16 years of communism, 36 million Russians were born, and 24.6 million died.
Poles can laugh about the 1980s because communism ended peacefully and Poland has prospered.
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There's no unifying belief as there was in communism, as clearly flawed as that was.
The potted histories of communism he provides as context are leaden and sometimes sloppy.
"We're on our way to communism, but first we go to socialism, " she said.
Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty played a pivotal, oft-unappreciated role in undermining Soviet communism.
Their technique of how to introduce communism on an island scale is worth studying.
Mr. Chakra had visited Romania 14 years ago when the country was emerging from communism.
Reagan was not at all genial on the topics of communism and the Soviet threat.
They could not do this by changing inheritance laws since communism had extinguished property rights.
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With the aftermath of Soviet communism, Europeans are no longer divided along the their respective wings.
Though a critic of capitalism (and American society), he came to loathe communism more.
The dividing line between populism and communism, many say, can sometimes be very thin.
Huffington argues, in effect, that communism and "laissez-faire" (minimal-intervention) capitalism are equivalent ideological extremes.
Their predecessors were largely successful in defeating communism, liberalizing the economy and reducing crime.
According to Talpes, along with communism came a passion for centralized planning among government controlled companies.
As an economist, Melvin was fascinated to see the last vestiges of Stalinist Communism.
China still has to make the transition from communism to a more democratic system.
State-funded studios had collapsed with the fall of communism, and cinemas were closing by the dozen.
Both communism and the economic upheavals that followed it have made their traditional livelihoods more difficult.
Even so, many still resist the idea that the founding fathers of communism were murderous maniacs.
Another staple of communism in Romania was very strong university training in physics and mathematics.
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