postcommunism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The period of political and economic transformation or transition in former communist states located in parts of Europe and Asia, in which new governments aimed to create free market-oriented capitalist economies.

Word forms

postcommunism

Etymology

From post- + communism.

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