Communist Successor Parties in Post-communist PoliticsNova Science Publishers, 1999 - 263 pages The development of the communist parties will vitally affect the course of democratic consolidation in the post-communist countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Yet it would be incorrect to assume that these parties will affect the course of democratic consolidation in exactly the same way, or develop along the dame lines. Indeed the communist successor parties have evolved in a variety of different ways. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK | 1 |
ADAPTATION AND CHANGE IN FORMERLY DOMINANT POLITICAL | 13 |
AND TANZANIA | 19 |
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