DEMOCRATIZATION IN THE FORMER COMMUNIST STATES- IMPOSITION OR NECESSITY
Accepted
26 March 2026
Available Online
15 March 2014
Abstract
WHEN WE TALK ABOUT TRANSITION, MUST BE CONSIDERED THE REASON FOR THIS. WE CAN NOT SAY THAT A TRANSITION TO A DESIRED STATE , IF ALL GOES WELL , BUT CERTAINLY WE CAN SAY THAT THE TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY IN COMMUNIST STATES WAS WANTED. FOR THE TRANSITION TO WORK, THE COMMUNISM HAD TO DISAPPEAR. WERE LAUNCHED VARIOUS THEORIES ABOUT THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM, THE FALL WAS DUE TO OVERVALUATION OF POWER BY THE WEST; GORBACHEV'S BAD GOVERNANCE ; THE STATE'S ECONOMIC IMPLOSION. THIS LAST HYPOTHESIS BELIEVE THAT THE STATE - DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT THE ONLY FACTOR THAT LED TO THE FALL OF THE TOTALITARIAN - ON THE BASIS OF COMMUNISM AND THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE SOVIET UNION.
Keywords
POST COMMUNISM
DEMOCRACY
EAST EUROPE
DEMOCRATIZATION
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