… and privilege in the political elite of the communist regime. Thus, the pessimists'claim that …
in the USSR as it looks toward the end of 1990. And yet, within Eastern Europe, the USSR, and …

… , hardly any Communist regime had had any … Soviet style, or take the forms which it has
already produced in Hungary and Poland. But it is very unlikely to leave any Communist regime …

… Political culture changed in reaction to the loosening of the traditional control mechanisms
of the communist regime. Once the transition was underway, it accelerated in a dynamic …

… Focusing on eleven countries, the present article analyzes mass evaluations of the
defunct Communist regime in order to specify the direction and extent, if any, of generational …

Hungary was the last ally of Nazi Germany, and as such suffered dreadful destruction in the
course of the fighting during the last year of the war. Although the war discredited the …

… a conceptualization of the Soviet communist regime and state by … of living and traveling in
the USSR and Russia, more than a … , of the Soviet Union and its post-Soviet successor states, …

… The Soviet state and communist regime were closely fused, since the multinational state had
been founded by the communist regime, … for the communist regime, Russians were deeply …

… served to demonstrate the severity of the Soviet crisis that had been accelerating since the …
the Soviet Union's ruling elites for a more efficient, disciplined and realistic communist regime. …

… pointed out in 1976, it was in nobody's interest in Poland to provoke a Soviet invasion -the
people would suffer, the local Communist regime would lose all autonomy, and the Soviet …

… from a communist to a post-communist regime is a change in kind since … Soviet Union too.
Moreover, the longer Central and East Europeans have lived in a freer, post-communist regime…