The Communist Party of China used to rule a destitute power.

Many Chinese do not accept communist rule precisely because the Communist Party denies its past, (and remains) unapologetic about its cruelty.

Chairman Mao s rule combined elements of the Chinese imperial system with Communist totalitarianism.

Of course, neither Egyptians nor Americans would ever allow a communist party to rule them.

During the Round Table negotiations that brought about the end of communist rule, a compromise was reached between the reform wing of the communist government and Solidarity.

Solidarity suffered that frustration in Poland in 1980 81, which prolonged communist rule for a decade.

During his rule, opposition to the communist regime increased, and the government lost control of the countryside.

Russia's people wanted to make a difference and amazingly they did their energy and cohesion put an end to Communist rule.

President Boris Yeltsin s main ideological project, completed in 2000, aimed to undo symbolically the years of communist rule and return Russia to its past.

The impossibility of sustaining growth in the absence of the rule of law and political accountability presents the Chinese Communist Party with an existential dilemma.

The title does not actually date back to before Mongolia's democratisation, but the office itself is seen as extending through Mongolia's period of communist rule.

My interlocutor thought I was joking. What the Chinese practice is rule by law the law as defined by the Communist Party to its own advantage.

This has denied Ukraine the lighthouse that helped guide other post communist states most recently Bulgaria and Romania towards Western style democracy and rule of law.

The Chinese Communist Party is not very communist any more.

I was born in a provincial town in Bulgaria in the late 1960 s, when, like the rest of Eastern Europe, the country was under Communist rule.

The French Communist Party (, PCF ) is a communist party in France.

The Communist Party of Bolivia () is a communist party in Bolivia.

One reason for unification was that the international communist movement, represented by the Communist Party of India, Iraqi Communist Party and the Communist Party of Australia, called for party unification.

Like those regimes, whether fascist or communist, China s leaders have sought to transform public space and sporting events into visible proof of their fitness and mandate to rule.

One enduring political myth that went down with Bo, the former Communist Party boss of Chongqing municipality, is the notion that the Party s rule is based on meritocracy.

Indeed, communism s breakdown began ten years earlier in Poland, during Pope John Paul II s first pilgrimage to his homeland, a visit that shook communist rule to its foundation.

This is why anyone, even a relatively unknown intellectual like Liu Xiaobo, who challenges the legitimacy of Communist Party rule by demanding multi party elections, must be crushed.

Some major powers, such as the United States and the newly communist Russia, did not recognize Romanian rule over Bessarabia, the latter considering it an occupation of Russian territory.

In the final weeks of Communist rule, Mazowiecki helped to establish a model for negotiated political transition that still informs, inspires, and guides other societies on the cusp of change.

Faith has an especially important role to play in politics in circumstances where secular liberals are rendered impotent, as in the case of Nazi occupation, Communist rule, or military dictatorship.

' The Algerian Communist Party (in French Parti Communiste Algérien ) was a communist party in Algeria.

CHENGDU Last month saw the 50th anniversary of what Tibetan activists like to call Tibetan National Uprising Day, the day in 1959 when Tibetans in Lhasa revolted against Chinese Communist Party rule.

The Chinese democracy movement (), abbreviated as Minyun () refers to a series of loosely organized political movements in the People's Republic of China against the continued one party rule by the Communist Party.

China s communist rulers must own up to their history and drop Mao and the communist legacy.

Senegalese Communist Party (in French Parti Communiste Sénégalais ) was a pro Chinese communist party in Senegal.

In the 20th century, the regimes of Communist Eastern Europe and Communist China were anti religious.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated CPI(M) or CPM) is a communist party in India.

The post communist turmoil led to the dismemberment of the Soviet Union and the breakup of Czechoslovakia, fueled Yugoslavia s wars and ethnic atrocities, and brought forth authoritarian rule and imperial revanchism in Russia.

A Communist Party without Communism

WARSAW It was two decades ago this summer that communist rule began to implode from Tallinn in the Baltic to Tirana in the Adriatic, ushering in free elections, market reforms, and expanded civil liberties.

Rather than attacking Communist rule directly, we would create small islands of freedom, inter connected social circles and associations, which, when the moment came, could all be connected in order to change the system.

The Communist Party of the Philippines (Filipino Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas ) is a leading communist party in the Philippines.

The Contradictions of China s Communist Capitalism

And his communist links are clear.

Communist ideology is a spent force.

The Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova is assessing the activity of the communist totalitarian regime.

Moscow soon forced the French Communist Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain to adopt an anti war position.

For a long time, it was a losing struggle, marked especially by the spread of both communist and anti communist tyrannies.

Poland's communist government then decided to negotiate.

In the process, officials are acknowledging the importance of good governance, as demonstrated by recent efforts to justify the purge and investigation of Bo Xilai as an example of the Communist Party safeguarding the rule of law.