This quantity presents a proof for the outstanding resilience of communist autocracies, together with the 10 regimes that finally collapsed in 1989-91 (the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Mongolia) and the 5 regimes that persist lower than communist rule to this present day (China, Vietnam, Laos, North Korea, and Cuba).
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"Is the adaptation smarter leaders? Luckier situations? Deeper ideological ideals? Structural flaws or resources? Political options of restricted establishing as opposed to inopportune repression? Differential effect of the foreign approach? This appropriate crew of authors thoughtfully sheds comparative gentle at the opaque tactics of the cave in or survival of communist regimes." - Jorge I. Domínguez, Harvard University
"This is a great ebook. by utilizing paired comparisons of communist regimes that collapsed in 1989-1991 and others that controlled to outlive, Dimitrov and his fellow authors impress us to imagine in new methods in regards to the toughness of those forms of regimes through the years. during this method, the amount strikes us past clichéd discussions in regards to the trials of communism and demanding situations us to imagine systematically approximately what determines regime resilience and failure. i've got doubtless that this ebook will supply vital insights for destiny reviews in regards to the complete communist era." - A. James McAdams, collage of Notre Dame
"Communism has a previous, yet does it have a destiny? during this interesting examine, Martin Dimitrov has assembled a powerful set of major foreign students to envision the endurance of the communist party-states that weathered the 1989-1991 denouement of the Soviet Union and its shopper states. the result's a theoretically insightful and empirically wealthy examine in comparative politics and Leninist type structures. the quantity leaves the reader with the feel that we've got no longer noticeable the tip of collapsing communist-type regimes." - David Shambaugh, The George Washington collage and The Brookings establishment
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32 (2008), 3–11. Martin K. Dimitrov 32 Institutions of Accountability In addition to economic growth and ideological legitimacy, communist regimes govern through institutions of accountability, including institutions of horizontal accountability (which subjects the executive to control by other party or state organs) and institutions of vertical accountability (whereby citizens have some control over those in power). The chapter by Abrami, Malesky, and Zheng assesses horizontal accountability in China and Vietnam by focusing on the degree to which the Central Committee holds the Politburo accountable, the independence of the government from the party, and the degree of control that the legislature can exercise over the government through parliamentary oversight.
34 Finally, a long overdue expansion of rights and freedoms that occurred during the mature stage further threatened regime stability, as it allowed for the formation of NGOs with antigovernment orientations. In contrast to the Eastern Bloc regimes, where a combination of such external and domestic factors brought about collapse, China, Vietnam, Laos, North Korea, and Cuba have used economic reform and/or externally oriented nationalism as tools to prolong their existence for, up to now, more than two decades since the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
Walder, “Workers, Managers, and the State: The Reform Era and the Political Crisis of 1989,” China Quarterly, no. 127 (1991), 467–492. See top-secret opinion polls from Bulgaria in the Central State Archives (TsDA), f. 1b op. 55 a. e. 853, “Obshtestvenoto mnenie po niakoi osnovni problemi na preustroistvoto v nashata strana” (Public Opinion on Some Basic Questions of Perestroika in Our Country), December 1988, p. 24. For an early example of Chinese criticism of Gorbachev’s acceptance of the “Harvard Plan” see Neibu canyue (Internal Reference), no.