decommunization

Decommunization is believed to be a power game of elites.

While sharing common traits the processes of decommunization have run differently in different states.

This exclusion formed part of the wider decommunization campaigns.

Holmes suggests the following reasons for the turnoff of decommunization:

Denazification was enforced by foreign powers, whereas decommunization was not.

The communist elites were able to resist decommunization.

Similar processes in other countries and on other occasions were denazification and decommunization.

Decommunization was largely limited or non-existent.

Stephen Holmes of the University of Chicago argued in 1996 that after a period of active decommunization, it was met with a near-universal failure.

Part of the volume deals with "the myth of decommunization", signifying the manner in which local elites may take hold of political discourse and proclaim lustration.

Germany after World War II experienced a salutary denazification process, and so it is necessary for Czechoslovakia to undergo a process of decommunization.

Decommunization in Russia is the process of dealing with the communist legacies in terms of institutions and personnel that tends towards breaking with the Soviet past.

For the 1991 elections, the Center Civic Alliance supported a pro-Western foreign policy, advocating membership into NATO, faster privatization, decommunization, and greater economic reforms.

Compared with the efforts of the other former constituents of the Soviet bloc and the Soviet Union, decommunization in Russia has been restricted to half-measures, if conducted at all.