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…Be Delayed: The Effect of Communist Legacies on Organizational and Institutional Reforms." Journal of Comparative Economics 17(2) (June): 385-406. Newbery, D.M. (1993) "Transformation in Mature versus Emerging Economies: Why Has Hungary Been Less Successful…

…until the dramatic democratic changes of 1989-91 led to the collapse during this past year of the Communist system and opened the way for an unprecedented new friendship between the United States and Russia, as well as the other new nations of the former…

…a close friend and semi-official tutor for the then teen-aged Dalai Lama. The people, customs and life that Harrer describes in this book are extraordinary, and I believe all readers will be as caught up in it as I was. Unfortunately, when the Communist…

…on their ability to maintain foreign relations or influence foreign governments. A policy that the US was actively pursuing themselves. The idea that aggressive, anti-Communist, and perhaps anti-Russian forces were encircling the USSR was all too real for those…

…to leave its communist past and the almost eternal post communism transition behind and find the right route to economical, political, and social stability and prosperity. Since 1991, Albania has welcomed foreign visitors but, as the poorest country in Europe…

…Gong is a group that was a threat to the communist government witch caused the death of about 1500 people. Although they do believe in good health and morality, they also practice slow motion exercise and believe in Buddhist. I think that this protest…

…generation of Filipino communists and socialists achieved their historical dream of storming the presidential palace. This is what made Estrada evacuation of the Palace and the installation of the new government such a bittersweet event, the overwhelming number…

…. Orwell, through the use of the character Squealer, shows how propaganda can affect members of a communist society in a negative way. By drawing parallels to events in communist Russia, Orwell's Animal Farm illustrates how propaganda was used to control…

…a tough civil war against the Vietnamese Communist’s, but the Vietnamese outnumbered them. In 1989, the Vietnamese soldiers started leaving Cambodia. The United Nations moved into Cambodia and spent billions of dollars supporting a new government…

…The Tet Offensive, which occurred on January 31, 1968, proved to be a political and a psychological victory for the Vietnamese communists. And, although it only lasted for about one month, it was one of America’s most notable battles that taught…