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Other well-known [[Communist]] Parties include the [[Chinese Communist Party]] and the [[Vietnamese Communist Party]]. They both currently hold power in their respective countries but do not explicitly follow Marxist doctrines. In [[Russia]], the second biggest political party is the Communist Party, but it is not a descendant of the Bolshevik Party.
Other well-known [[Communist]] Parties include the [[Chinese Communist Party]] and the [[Vietnamese Communist Party]]. They both currently hold power in their respective countries but do not explicitly follow Marxist doctrines. In [[Russia]], the second biggest political party is the Communist Party, but it is not a descendant of the Bolshevik Party.
==1989==
When the [[Berlin Wall]] fell in 1989 it meant that the Soviet Union was no longer in charge. The dictatorships of eastern Europe all fell in a matter of days--and Russia's collapsed in 1991. All the Communist parties of eastern Europe transformed themselves after 1989 into more mainstream center-left parties. One exception was in the [[Czech Republic]], where the Communist Party refused to undertake a comprehensive overhaul. It gained nearly 13% of the vote in the last parliamentary elections in 2006. Its supporters are mostly those fed up with politics as usual and regime nostalgics, many of them elderly pensioners, for whom life before 1989 seemed better than it does today.
== See also ==
== See also ==
*[[Karl Marx]]
*[[Lenin]]
*[[Joseph Stalin]]
*[[Joseph Stalin]]
*[[Communism]]
*[[Communism]]
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