Communism and the Cold War

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increasing control over media--especially TV

arrest of oligarchs on trumped up charges--Khodorkovsky

using Chechen war to make governorships appointed, not elected

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continuing revolutions

“color revolutions” in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgistan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4459224.stm#

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Who is left among Communists?

5 countries:

China, Vietnam, Laos, North Korea, Cuba

And several post Communist societies have changed little

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In China . . .

1989--crackdown at Tiananmen Square

in 1990s, some signs of loosening up

local contested elections

more freedom to criticize local governments

1000s of NGOs allowed to organize

on the other hand, since 1999 Falun Gong outlawed, etc.

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