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Ranking Eastern Europe Communist regimes by severity of repression [closed]
I was wondering that the severity of repression, censorship, economic stagnation must have varied greatly across the Eastern bloc countries between 1945-1990. It may even have varied over the years in ...
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Why was most of Europe against communism right from the start?
In "Dark Continent" by M. Mazower, I read the following with regards to the 1920s:
In the first place, democracy’s international backers were less supportive as time passed. Woodrow Wilson’s legacy ...
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What was the reaction of Western Communist Parties to Kruschev's 1956 speech denouncing Stalin?
I am also curious about the reactions of left-leaning intellectuals (aka "fellow-travellers").
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Was the IMF complicit in destroying the Romanian economy?
Wikipedia claims that despite the unprecedented growth of Romanian industry and food and production at the rate of 22% per year, Romania experienced serious shortage of food and petrol in the late 80s ...
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