post-communismn.adj.
/ˌpəʊs(t)ˈkɒmjᵿnɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈkɑmjəˌnɪz(ə)m/ A. n.
Originally: an ideology or political system informed by but differing from communism. Later: the cultural or political situation following or resulting from a period of communist government, now esp. that of eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > [noun] > other types of communism
neo-Communism1923
post-communism1931
hammer and sickle1935
Titoism1947
Naxalism1970
Eurocommunism1976
1931 J. Mavrogordato Mod. Greece viii. 211 N. Kazantzakes (1885), a restless and original artist who has wandered from Crete to Russia producing poems and plays and expositions of ‘post-communism’.
1939 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 10 Feb. 3/4 Pius [XI]..fought relentlessly against what he believed were corrupting influences of motion pictures, modern fiction, post-communism as ‘alien to Christian truth’.
1940 H. G. Wells Babes in Darkling Wood ii. i. 126 Our renascent Revolution (1939 pattern) has to keep statement alive and flexible. Ours is a new pattern of revolution. It is Post-Communism.
1958 C. C. West Communism & Theologians vii. 357 This is the Church as God intends it and as it must become if the challenge of Communism or indeed post-Communism in the community life of man is to be met.
1989 Z. Brzezinski Grand Failure xxiv. 252 Post-Communism..will be a system in which self-declared ‘Communists’ just do not treat communist doctrine seriously as the guide to social policy.
1995 Independent (Nexis) 26 Nov. 14 Post-communism is not a Sovietic monolith.
2004 Times (Nexis) 4 Dec. 5 Mr Putin came to power promising to rebuild Russia from the chaos of post-communism.
B. adj.
Of or relating to the period following the collapse of communism in Europe.
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1990 Money (Nexis) Apr. 179 Post-communism cravings for its American brands..should make the firm a hit in the East as well.
1996 Sunday Mail (Queensland, Austral.) (Nexis) 27 Oct. At the height of 1989-1990 post-communism euphoria,..a cynical friend suggested Albania should be preserved as a kind of Stalinist theme park, just to show future generations what the old system was like.
2004 Time Out (Nexis) 3 Nov. 100 A slick..doc by two film students who decide to test the greed and gullibility of their post-Communism compatriots by orchestrating a massive publicity campaign for the opening of a non-existent hypermarket.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1931