Post-communism

This article is about the economic and political transformations that occurred in certain countries as a result of the fall of their communist governments. For the academic study of the contemporary status of these countries, see Postsocialism. For the political philosophy that reinterprets Marxism, see Post-Marxism.

Post-communism is the period of political and economic transformation or transition in post-Soviet states and other formerly communist states located in Central-Eastern Europe and parts of Latin America, Africa, and Asia, in which new governments aimed to create free market-oriented capitalist economies. In 1989–1992, communist party governance collapsed in most communist party-governed states. After severe hardships communist parties retained control in China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam. SFR Yugoslavia began to disintegrate, which plunged the country into a long complex series of wars between ethnic groups and nation-states. Soviet-oriented communist movements collapsed in countries where they were not in control.[1][2]

  1. ^ David Priestland, The Red Flag: A History of Communism (Grove, 2009) pp 346–353.
  2. ^ Robert Service, Comrades: A World History of Communism (2007) pp. 459–460,