Rejecting symbols of the past: Impact of political conditions on decommunization laws
Abstract
The article focuses on legal prohibition of communist symbols in post-communist countries. Conditions of the prohibition are highlighted. The author applies qualitative comparative analysis to create a typology of countries had bent the communist symbols. The typology is based on varieties of sets of the conditions.
About the Author
Elena Meleshkina
Institute of Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Moscow State Institute of International Relations, MFA Russia
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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