... that view the fusion of state and private interests in China as a threat to their own national security. © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 China economic policy communism capitalism business Xi Jinping “In a party-state capitalist system, the state’s...

... China governance surveillance law corruption civil liberties Internet Xi Jinping communism 209 Social credit redirects the power of data away from markets and strengthens the state s ability to comprehensively control behavior. China s Social Credit System: Data-Driven Governance...

..., where everyday needs and personal desires intersect with politics and global economic forces. Yuson Jung Bulgaria Eastern Europe consumer protection fake goods food socialism communism postsocialismcapitalism government regulation deregulation © 2019 Current History. All rights...

... societies, including those in the post- communist region, are rapidly aging; in the East, many retirees depend on secure but low pensions as their sole income. However, a substantial num- ber of them have become property owners, due largely to generous government policies that repri- vatized communal...

.... Communism and fascism still have followers and continue to exert an uncanny seductive pow- er. Can critical intellectuals still make a difference? Can liberal values resist ethnocentric attacks? We need clearheadedness, moral intelligence, and political lucidity. Maybe these are all lyrical illu- sions...

... Theodore Gerber Russia economic reform oligarchs middle class social mobility education cronyism corruption Soviet Union communism inequality 258 The fall of the Soviet Union sparked hopes that a Russian middle class would emerge and thrive, but so far it has not. Stalled Social...

... culture autocracy democracy communism Crimea Ukraine NATO Boris Yeltsin Boris Nemtsov Dmitry Medvedev 251 Vladimir Putin has ruled Russia for so long that it s hard to imagine Russia without him. He has been Russia s central decision maker as president or prime minister for nearly two...

... mobility middle class poverty labor migration informal economy economic development communism Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong 203 In December 1978, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) formally announced its decision to leave the safe shores of economic policies based on state socialism...

... Chinese University Press , 2018 © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Jessica C. Teets book review Red Swan Sebastian Heilmann Xi Jinping Mao Zedong Deng Xiaoping Chinese Communist Party communism governance reform...

... Jaroslaw Kaczynski Hungary Viktor Orbán Fidesz European Union European Council Solidarity communism illiberal 96 The one bright light in this darkening landscape is that Poles remain committed to democracy. Poland s Path to Illiberalism ANNA GRZYMALA-BUSSE Poland, long the postcommunist...

...Maria Todorova Two books offer different takes on everyday life in Bulgaria since 1989, one a lament for the loss of social solidarity, the other a lyrical portrait of a wild frontier region. Red Hangover: Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism , by Kristen Ghodsee Duke University Press...

... Russian Revolution foreign policy Cold War Third World China United States Europe NATO anticolonialism decolonization national liberation nonaligned movement communism 258 Russia continues to be caught between a need to integrate itself into the West and a desire to maintain its...

... Lenin Bolsheviks Russian Revolution empire communism Marxism capitalism Joseph Stalin Soviet Union imperialism nationalism Russia empire self-determination In the first quarter-century since the disintegra-tion of the Soviet Union and the collapse of self-described communism...

... . Pantheon , 2017 . © 2017 Current History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Robert Weller book review Souls China Ian Johnson China religion Daoism Buddhism Christianity Protestant churches Mao communism Until about a decade ago, much...

...Rudra Sil After the fall of communism, the restructuring of labor became an integral part of the larger project of building democracy and markets. 88 After the fall of communism, the restructuring of labor became an integral part of the larger project of building democracy and markets. Labor s...

... Hungary and Poland as extensions of a mid-twentieth-century nationalist agenda. In fact, this illiberalism is a politics that has adopt- ed the tactics of late communism and continued many of the policies pursued by the transitional governments of the 1990s and the early 2000s. It is qualitatively...

... Ever since the end of the Soviet Union a joke has been making the rounds of the Rus-sian factories and workshops that stretch from St. Petersburg to the Pacific Ocean: In the Soviet Union, ordinary people always knew the authorities were lying about communism; now they real- ize that they were telling...

...Andrew Wilson ‘Transition’ is clearly much harder than it was immediately after the collapse of communism in 1989—91, now that the West is weaker and Russia is not only stronger but committed to keeping its neighbors weak. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents...

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... West collapse communism Crimea Donbas Donbass invasion Russian cold war rebel Obama maidan USSR soviet protests orange Poroshenko Malaysian Kremlin Nato EU Brics revolution protest nationalism Caspian Azerbaijan oil Georgia conflict Nagorno-Karabakh CSTO Yerevan...