Download or read book European Communism Since 1989 written by Kate Hudson and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2000-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decade or so later things look rather different: the most serious crisis in the world economy since the Second World War has occurred; the experiment of free market economics in Russia has resulted in economic collapse; communist parties and their successors have gained significant electoral support in the former Soviet Union and most of eastern Europe; as in western Europe, social democracy has started to face a growing electoral challenge from a new European left - regaining and expanding a political space occupied previously by communist parties. This book argues that no analysis of the pattern of European politics, into the new millennium, can be complete without taking this developing force into account."--Jacket.