post-communist
Following red collapse
Post-communist describes the period, conditions, or characteristics following the collapse of communist governments, particularly in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union after 1989-1991.
It often implies the turbulent transition to market economies and democratic institutions: post-communist Poland, the challenges of post-communist reform.
The term can describe countries, economies, societies, or the generation that came of age during this transformation.
State sells public assets
- marketizationConverting to commerce-driven systems
- shock therapyElectric psychiatric treatment
- democratizationTransition toward popular rule
- liberalizationReducing state economic controls
reform · transformation · lustration · restitution · stabilization · restructuring · deregulation · decentralization
Wealthy few who govern
- privatizationState sells public assets
- hyperinflationExtreme rapid price escalation
- kleptocracyState-sponsored looting system
- corruptionDishonest abuse of power
shock therapy · foreign investment · deindustrialization · unemployment · inequality · capital flight · asset stripping · black market
Polish trade union movement
- Velvet RevolutionCzechoslovakia's nonviolent 1989 transition
- StasiEast German secret police
- lustrationCleansing rite or vetting
- dissidentsPolitical objectors
Gorbachev · Yeltsin · samizdat · Charter 77 · authoritarianism · populism · nationalism · separatism
USSR's lasting influence
- collective memoryCommunity's shared historical recall
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- reckoningSettlement of accounts
memorialization · archives · truth commissions · rehabilitation · monuments · renaming · historical revisionism · generational divide
USSR-aligned European nations
- BalkansSoutheastern European peninsula
- Baltic StatesThree northeastern European countries
- former Soviet UnionDissolved communist superpower
- Central EuropeContinent's middle zone
Eastern Europe · Caucasus · Central Asia · Iron Curtain · Warsaw Pact · buffer states · satellite states · successor states
privatization
State sells public assets
- marketizationConverting to commerce-driven systems
- shock therapyElectric psychiatric treatment
- democratizationTransition toward popular rule
liberalization · reform · transformation · lustration · restitution · stabilization · restructuring · deregulation · decentralization · institution-building
oligarchs
Wealthy few who govern
- privatizationState sells public assets
- hyperinflationExtreme rapid price escalation
- kleptocracyState-sponsored looting system
corruption · shock therapy · foreign investment · deindustrialization · unemployment · inequality · capital flight · asset stripping · black market · currency reform
Solidarity
Polish trade union movement
- Velvet RevolutionCzechoslovakia's nonviolent 1989 transition
- StasiEast German secret police
- lustrationCleansing rite or vetting
Gorbachev · Yeltsin · dissidents · samizdat · Charter 77 · authoritarianism · populism · nationalism · separatism · oligarchy
Soviet legacy
USSR's lasting influence
- collective memoryCommunity's shared historical recall
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- traumaLasting psychological wound
reckoning · memorialization · archives · truth commissions · rehabilitation · monuments · renaming · historical revisionism · generational divide · identity crisis
Eastern Bloc
USSR-aligned European nations
- BalkansSoutheastern European peninsula
- Baltic StatesThree northeastern European countries
- former Soviet UnionDissolved communist superpower
Central Europe · Eastern Europe · Caucasus · Central Asia · Iron Curtain · Warsaw Pact · buffer states · satellite states · successor states · CIS
- Eastern BlocEastern Bloc, Warsaw Pact, Iron Curtain, Soviet Union, USSR
- Post-1989 PolandSolidarity, free elections, shock therapy, democratic transition, regime change
post-communistcommunist
Collectivist political adherent
Soviet-era · Marxist-Leninist · Stalinist · Maoist · pre-revolutionary