A fascinating insight into political life after the collapse of
communism and the fall of the Iron Curtain in the late 1980s.
For Communist parties and their successors (CSPs), the challenge
was perhaps the greatest - to redefine themselves within new,
'westernized' political systems. As these parties sought to adapt
their programmatic appeals to their new environments, they searched
for policies from abroad that could fit these new political
structures.
The political parties of Western Europe provided a rich range of
programs from which policies could be drawn. This book analyzes
how, to what extent and under what conditions external influences
came to bear on the programmatic development of CSPs. It argues
that while some parties remain neo-communist in orientation,
growling about the evils of capitalism on the far-left of their
respective political systems, others have developed into social
democratic actors, embracing programmatic ideals that often bear a
strong resemblance to those of center-left actors in Western
Europe.
This book was previously published as a special issue of "The"
"Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics."
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