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ETYMOLOGICAL CAVEAT As in the case of the term "communist state", it should be noted that "post-communism" is completely inaccurate if we use the original definition of Communism (the one given by the communists themselves). None of the so-called "communist states" ever claimed to actually have a communist system, and therefore, technically, there is no such thing as "post-communism". However, those states were usually called "communist" in the West, because their ruling parties generally used the name "Communist Party of {Link without Title} ", and it is in this context that the term ''post-communism'' must be understood. ''See also: Definition Of A "Communist State" '' POLITICS The policies of most party and a new Communist Party. Without exception, the newly created Social Democratic parties were vastly larger and more powerful than the remaining Communist Parties. The ex-communist social democrats gained increasing popularity when the transition to , Neoliberal policy while in power. As a result, many disillusioned left-wing voters have turned to the remaining Communist Parties in recent years. In western Europe, many of the self-styled communist political parties reacted by changing their policies to a more Moderate and less Radical course. In countries such as Italy and Germany , post-communism is marked by the increased influence of their existing Social Democrat s. The anti-Soviet communist parties in western Europe (for example the Trotskyist parties), who felt that the fall of the Soviet Union vindicated their views and predictions, didn't particularly prosper from it - in fact, some of them became less radical as well. ECONOMY Several communist states had undergone economic reforms from a Command Economy towards a more Market-oriented Economy in the 1980s. The post-communist economic transition was much more abrupt and aimed at creating fully capitalist economies. In most places, this process was successful, but only at the cost of a highly negative impact on the population. Standards of living registered a catastrophic fall in the early 1990s , and only started growing again during the late 1990s and early 2000s . Some countries continue to have standards of living below their 1989 level even today (e.g. Serbia And Montenegro , Ukraine , Moldova ), while others have managed to recover and passed above that threshold (e.g. Poland , Czech Republic , Romania , Hungary ). Yet others, namely the Baltic States , have gone through a period of economic boom in the 2000s after recovering throughout the late 1990s (see Baltic Tiger ). Today, most post-communist countries in Europe are generally seen to have Mixed Economies , although it is often argued that some (such as Romania , Slovakia and Estonia , with their flat tax rates) are actually more capitalist than Western Europe. Some of the keywords of post-communism are: SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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