postcommunist

adjective

post·com·mu·nist ˌpōst-ˈkäm-yə-nist

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: existing or occurring after the decline or end of communism

postcommunist reformation

… what's at stake here is the establishment of a new form of governance that's been spreading across postcommunist Central and Eastern Europe …—

Dalibor Rohac

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web His work in postcommunist states could be dispiriting. —

James Taranto, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2018 Conditions are better elsewhere, but the gap between prosperous European countries like Germany and postcommunist states like Poland remains immense. —

Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 23 July 2018

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