Constrained Choices: How Bosnian Communists Lost Their Party Before Losing the Elections by Muharemović Ensar

“…The case of Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1990 demonstrates that slow, indecisive, and gradual policymaking during the transformational period from communism to democracy could have disastrous consequences for the electoral chances of the incumbent communist parties.…”
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L’anticommunisme, l’autre moteur de Jean-Marie Le Pen by Adrian Thomas

“…Retrospectives on Jean-Marie Le Pen highlight his most infamous statements, but almost systematically overlook a central aspect of his commitment: anti-communism. This is crucial because it is a cardinal point of the far right, inseparable from the global struggle to preserve a white Western civilization. …”
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« Si vous votez la loi d’exclusion aujourd’hui, c’est vous qui serez exclus demain » by Bilel Kchouk

“…As in the case of the fall of communism, we defend the idea of an enlargement of the political elite space allowing newcomers to cohabit with former political elites. …”
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Lay persons in catechesis. Experience and challenges in the case of Slovenia by Tadej Stegu

“…Unlike in most other countries, religious education did not return to public schools in Slovenia after the fall of communism. The Catholic Church intensively introduced and developed catechesis in parishes. …”
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The Public Image of Soviet Science During Franco’s Spain by Ruiz-Castell Pedro

“…After years of exploiting anti-Communism to enhance political stability, many Spaniards became suspicious of the Soviets and were convinced of the threat that their political ideology represented. …”
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A History of “Who Speaks for Islam?” in Bosnia-Herzegovina: An Official Versus Popular Islam Debate by Hüsrev Tabak

“…This paper examines the organisation of popular and official Islam during and after communism in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Through studying the interaction between the popular and the official forms of Islam in the historical context, this paper unfolds the debate on who speaks for Islam? …”
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De quelle nostalgie l’utopie andalouse d’Aragon est-elle le miroir ? by Stéphane Baquey

“…Thus, in Le Fou d’Elsa, the strategy of allusive speech allows shifts which re-qualify the status of utopia and nostalgia in a speech unleashed form orthodox communism. This nostalgia of what could have happened, being dislocated in the culture of the Muslim worlds, also leads to reconceive the claims of a universalism which would not take into account as a prerequisite a principle of hospitality.…”
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« Penser base-ball » by Peter Marquis

“…A weapon against “juvenile delinquency” and communism, baseball was thought to shape the minds of future citizens and to convey the values the country embraced in its post-1945 reconstruction years. …”
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Relations of Society Concepts and Religions from Wikipedia Networks by Klaus M. Frahm, Dima L. Shepelyansky

“…We establish five poles of influence for society concepts (Law, Society, Communism, Liberalism, Capitalism) as well as five poles for religions (Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Chinese folk religion) and determine how they affect other entries. …”
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Traficul și consumul de droguri din perspectiva respectării drepturilor omului by Claudiu Mihail Roman, Venera Bucur, Alexandra Marilena Mioc

“…With the fall of communism and the emergence of new social phenomena, drug trafficking and consumption began to become visible in Romania as well. …”
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Informal networks of corruption in contemporary Lithuania: Between practice and interpretation (an attempt to study evolution of blat) by Donatas Brandišauskas

“… Over the past decade, the corruption has become a popular concern, the subject of considerable investigation, and the target of international efforts in Lithuania. In a period of communism, role blat as one form of corruption plays a major role in explaining the everyday economic practices of Soviet society. …”
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THE TRADITION OF NEW PERSONALITY UPBRINGING IN THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN EDUCATION by V. I. Polishchuk

“…The Soviet time experience concerning education and upbringing of the future communism builders is revealed.Based on the retrospective analysis, the author comes to conclusion that all the unsuccessful attempts at upbringing the new personality resulted from the discrepancy between the officially stated goals and insufficient at-tempts to develop loyal and reliable citizens. …”
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Niosąc w przyszłość dziedzictwo pontyfikatu. Związki watykańskiej Fundacji Jana Pawła II z instytucjami w Polsce by Andrzej Dobrzyński

“…After the collapse of communism in 1989, and the death of John Paul II in 2005, many similar institutions have been founded in Poland. …”
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CATHOLIC POLITICAL DOCTRINE DURING THE WORLD WARS by G. T. Sardaryan

“…Obviously, neither liberalism, nor communism could be such. Moreover, it was precisely because of the emergence of the communist threat that the Catholic Church perceived a number of authoritarian regimes in the early years of their existence as subjects that could be oriented toward a less hostile direction of development. …”
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Formation of National Identity in Slovakia by M. V. Vedernikov

“…For the Czech Republic, anti-communism became a basis, while in Slovakia there was no complete denial of the communist past. …”
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The Phenomenon of «Islamic State» by A. V. Fedorchenko, A. V. Krylov

“…The crisis of "secular ideologies" (primarily Western liberalism and communism), greatly contributed to the success of "Islamic boom", including the creation of the ISIS. …”
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RELIGION AND STATE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION by Joanna Kulska

“…Central European countries like Poland, Czech Republic or Slovakia have been facing the unsolved issues of restitution of Church property despite the fact that over two decades have passed since the collapse of communism. All these events, accompanied by dozens of smaller incidents taking place at more local and less public level, have become an incentive for another phase of the debate on the place of religion in Europe, the discussion that has not only been present in the public arena for the last years but has even escalated compared to the previous decades. …”
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International Organizations: the Main Factors of Emergence and Development by L. S. Voronkov

“…The article presents the main factors that in later stages of internationalization and development of contemporary international relations gave the impetus to emergence and development of international organizations, including the military-technological revolution, that gave birth to mass destruction weapons and avalanche-like growth of the number of human and material losses during wars and military conflicts, the Cold War between world communism and world capitalism, the collapse of the colonial system and formation ofa new main contradiction of the world politics between the "Club of rich countries" and states of the "global periphery", beginning of development of regional integration processes and, finally, the emergence of global problems. …”
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Russian population’s political activities in the first third of the XX century on the example of the Peasant Union creation movement by G. S. Chuwardin, V. G. Ivanov, O. A. Nesterchuk, V. F. Nitsevich, O. A. Sudorgin

“…Calls to create a union during the Civil War took place against the background of peasants’ disillusionment with the “war communism” policy. In 1921, the idea of creating the Peasant Union was revived. …”
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NEW «PARASITIC CLASS»: ON THE CONCEPT OF MIKHAIL VOSLENSKY by Сергій САВЧЕНКО, Катерина ПРОКОФ’ЄВА, Оксана РЕШЕТІЛОВА

“…Unlike Djilas, who believed in the potential of «true» communism, Voslensky fully breaks away from the system. …”
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