The demise of communism in the former Soviet Union and the massive political and
economic changes in China are the stunning transformations of our century. Two central …

Preserving the direction of the Chinese Communist Party after the death of Mao Zedong,
Deng Xiao Ping has lead a process of economic and structural reforms that led China to …

The Soviet model is the only version of socialism that gave birth to an alternative
socioeconomic system to that of capitalism. 1 After its development in the Soviet Union in the …

Since the political crises of 1989, China's trajectory of political and economic change has
diverged radically from that of virtually all of the states that were governed by similar political …

First published in 1982. The dramatic changes in policy and theory following the death of
Chairman Mao in 1976 and the publication of the most extensive official and unofficial data …

China's approach towards post-Stalinist reform contrasts markedly with that of most other
former centrally planned economies (CPEs). Eastern Europe and Russia tried to move …

The collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union was extremely painful to
China. Chinese newspapers and journals published numerous articles demonstrating the …

This article examines the future of socialism in China. China is not socialist today, nor are its
reforms likely to bring about socialism. Indeed, China has been “reforming” for over two …

The collapse first of Communist rule of the USSR and then of the USSR itself was without
question one of the pivotal events of the era. Since China's 20th-century history has been so …

It is now nearly ten years since the Third Plenum of the Eleventh Central Committee of the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began the reform process which Deng Xiaoping has called …