The author of this article is head of the United Front Department of the Communist Party of Japan. The article was written in response to a request by the editors of A LR for material on the policy of the Communist Party of Japan in the struggle for the return of Okinawa and against the US-Japan Security Treaty. Written prior to the SatoNixon negotiations, the article correctly predicted the ou...

The Soviet communist regime had devastating consequences on the state of Russian twentieth century science. Country Communist leaders promoted Trofim Lysenko--an agronomist and keen supporter of the inheritance of acquired characters--and the Soviet government imposed a complete ban on the practice and teaching of genetics, which it condemned as a "bourgeois perversion". Russian science, which ...

In this article we propose a stylistic analysis of Solomon Marcus’ publicistics, gathered in six volumes, aiming to uncover some of his quantitative and qualitative fingerprints. Moreover, we compare and cluster two distinct periods of time in his writing style: 22 years of communist regime (1967-1989) and 27 years of democracy (1990-2016). The distributional analysis of Marcus’ text reveals th...

Aim. To analyze the election programs of non-parliamentary political parties regarding frequency and effectiveness using image future as an electoral technique. Research objectives are to establish whether use is a common tool in elections State Duma VIII th convocation, well find out how effective conditions formed state strategy for medium long term. Methodology. The analysis "Yabloko", "Russ...

For most of the 1990s, many analysts focused their attention on determining the circumstances under which a particular set of economic policies could be implemented in a post-communist state. Although that research agenda led to important breakthroughs regarding the importance of “first-round winners” in post-communist states and the short-run compatibility of democratization and marketization,...

This article examines the Race Equality Directive (RED) and its transposition in the context of a new European Union (EU) member state, Baltic Lithuania. Taking this post-communist society as a case study, it is suggested that while formal legislative compliance with the RED has been broadly attained, transposed anti-discrimination legislation and national policy implementation initiatives may ...

This article examines the role of prominent individuals unaffiliated to any parties (Non-affiliates) in China’s political party system. It also investigates historical formation non-affiliates Chinese revolutionary history. Through nation-wide regulations and results a case study at city level, analyzes present systems mechanisms guaranteeing functioning non-affiliates, as well obstacles they f...

Abstract Policies in liberal democracies can never be fully sheltered from the influence of interest groups. This is especially true for flawed or immature that found also post-communist world. In this study, we argue progress democratization Czechia has been accompanied by a growing groups (local/regional governments, political parties, industrial corporations) on national defence strategy. Fo...