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Ex-Communists and Rough Beasts
Singer, Daniel | November 14, 1994 issue

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Capitalist euphoria proved short-lived in Europe. Five years ago, the world witnessed the collapse of the post-Stalinist empire, which folded with unexpected ease. Last year, the Poles and then the Russians voted massively against the practitioners of the shock therapy prescribed by the I.M.F. and the international financial establishment. This year, it was the turn of the Hungarians to elect the former Communists. Five years ago, as Eastern Europeans voted with their feet and their Trabant cars for capitalism, it was hard to imagine that they would be putting ex-Communists back into office so soon.

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COMMUNISM; CAPITALISM; INTERNATIONAL economic relations; COLLECTIVISM; WORLD politics; EUROPE
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