Redeeming the Communist Past
Subtitle: The Regeneration of Communist Parties in East Central Europe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 18, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780521001465
Subjects: Marxism & Communism; Political economy; Political parties; Politics/International Relations; Political Process - Political Parties; Former Soviet republics; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics and government; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); History & Theory - Radical Thought; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; Communist parties--Europe, Eastern; Political Science / General; Europe, Eastern; 1989-; Communist parties
First sentence: If communist legacies are defined as the patterns of behavior, cognition, and organization with roots in the authoritarian regime that persist despite a change in the conditions that gave rise to them, three separate tests assess the impact of a given legacy on post-1989 party development.