capitalism
a political and economic system that is officially based on this theory:
The book deals with the realities of life under Communism in the former Soviet Union.

Examples of communism

communism
Therefore, at the fall of communism, they were positioned to divert resources to themselves, and to prevent their economies reaching anything like an efficient equilibrium.
Communism in this period was not just international but anti-national in ethos and its notions of loyalty and legitimacy acknowledged no ties of place.
So does the continuing impact of the pattern of political organization under communism.
The former communist countries shared the same type of economic system before the collapse of communism.
Communism from the late nineteenth century through the 1940s provided an alternative anti-liberal ideological response to consumer culture.
The youth of '68 are those who carry the legacy of communism in their bones.
In other words, the legitimation of communism required the de-legitimation of anti-communism and of anti-communist parties.
The fierce confrontation with communism in the early cold war years played a very important role in this remarkable transformation.
Under communism in the 1980s, quotas brought women's representation in parliaments to around 30 per cent.
Many of the tens of thousands of foundations that sprang up immediately after the end of communism are no longer active.
Funding for maternal and child welfare in the 1920s was relatively generous once the crisis of the transition from 'war communism' had passed.
The conditions of war communism seemed at one moment to be pushing urban families in the direction that 'history' had ascribed to them.
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