It has long been assumed that the historical legacy of Soviet Communism would have an
important effect on post-communist states. However, prior research has focused primarily on …

Twenty years after the collapse of communism, a rough consensus in the literature on
postcommunist politics is that the past matters. Many questions remain, however, about …

Communist regimes were avowedly leftist authoritarian regimes, a relative rarity among
autocracies. The growing literature on regime legacies would lead us to expect that …

In this article, we test the effect of communist-era legacies on the large and temporally
resilient deficit in civic participation in post-communist countries. To do so, we analyze data …

We investigate the effect of individual exposure to communism on support for democracy
and capitalism. We examine whether this effect varies across different types of communism …

This study, based on an extensive program of interviewing former American, British, French,
and Italian Communists, provides many answers to these questions and gives a convincing …

From a height of almost 100,000 members during the Depression, when politicians, workers,
and intellectuals were drawn into its orbit, the American Communist Party has descended …

The collapse of communism was one of the most defining moments of the twentieth century.
At its peak, more than a third of the world's population had lived under communist power …

Over a decade has passed since the collapse of communism, yet citizens of post-communist
countries are still far less likely to join voluntary organizations than people from other …

This book takes stock of arguments about the historical legacies of communism that have
become common within the study of Russia and East Europe more than two decades after …