Communist Successor Parties in Post-Communist Politics
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: April 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781560726777
Subjects: Marxism & Communism; Political structure & processes; Politics and government; Political; Communism; Contemporary Politics; Post-Communism; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics - Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; Political Process - Political Parties; Communist parties; 1989-; Europe, Eastern; Former Soviet republics
Description: The development of the communist successor parties will vitally affect the course of democratic consolidation in the post-communist countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Yet it would be incorrect to assume that these parties will affect the course of democratic consolidation in exactly the same way, or develop along the same lines. Indeed the communist successor parties have evolved in a variety of different ways.

What accounts for the divergent paths followed by the communist parties of Central and Eastern Europe? Why are some of these parties able to make a relatively successful transition from communist parties committed to democratic competition while others seem far less capable (or willing) to do so? This book presents thoughtful analyses of these important questions.