Post-communism
Post-communism is the period of political and economic transformation or transition in former communist states located in 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.
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.
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