The article substantiates the reasons of split in Ukrainian communist movement Canada mid-1930s at peak its popularity. They consisted acquainting supporters with information about dekulakization, Holodomor 1932–1933, Bolshevik repressions on territory Socialist Soviet Republic, and so on. It clearly describes how this conflict took place labour-farmer temple association, which united communist...

Macro-control is an important system of regulation in the body of socialist market economy; it plays a significant role in the social economy. To make it come into play, it is necessary for us to avoid the grave twists in the economy development. For the past few years, the unbalance of our economy development and the speculation makes a negative effect to the normal development of socialist ec...

The author analyzes changes in the rate of migration and choice of destination among migrants from socialist countries in eastern and southern Europe to the United States and Canada during the period 1941-1990. "The data presented show that in the period in question the immigrants from the European socialist countries constituted only 2.9% of the total number of immigrants to the U.S.A. while ...

In Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China, Julian Gewirtz argues that a coalition of Chinese reformers and Western economists made it possible for the post-Mao economic reform to emerge in the 1980s. Although “Foreign Minister Wang Yi recently claimed that ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’ was ‘grown out of the soil of China,’ and former ...

Abstract – The paper considers end-use electricity consumption and efficiency trends in transition countries, i.e. ten former socialist states that are now new EU members, and the Republic of Croatia as a candidate country. For the last twenty years, transition countries are in the process of changing their social, economic and political structures with considerable influence on the electricity...

Religious socialization occurs within the immediate family as well as in the broader social context. Previous research has shown that parents’ religiosity matters less for the transmission of religious beliefs in devout than in secular nations, implying smaller costs of religious socialization. In this paper we test which other societal factors affect the transmission of religious beliefs: anti...

The recent decades of Marxist social science, particularly political economy, have been characterized by an intense theoretical defensive. The shortcomings of Eastern European socialism and its ideological reflections have been revealed gradually. However, the "ruthless criticism of all that exists" has not been accompanied by an alternative socialist theory. The image of the society to be achi...