1. Now everyone expects Ion Iliescu and his post-communist party to win this autumn's presidential and parliamentary elections.

2. For post-communist countries those transition periods are likely to cover more areas and last longer.

3. First, transitions in post-communist countries will probably be accompanied by attempts at fundamental transformation of the economic system.

4. The citizens of some post-communist countries have reason to think so.

5. Voters are generally disillusioned with post-communist politics.

6. This has been most evident in the post-communist states where democratic revolutions have failed — such as in Belarus (2005) and Kyrgyzstan (2008).

7. This was ignored in the post-communist epoch, when financial gurus babbled about new paradigms and a Labour chancellor in Britain proclaimed that he had abolished the cycle of "boom and bust".

8. In the post-communist world, there is, of course, the frequently noted return of the ex-Communists.

9. The post-Communist travails of the former Soviet Union have been valuable as what the party used to call "teaching by negative example".

10. Recent outbursts of homophobia in eastern European post-communist states should also give us pause for thought.

11. In 1995 life expectancy increased by one year to 65, its first post-communist gain.

12. Today historians are tempted to write the history of the post-communist transitions in Central and Eastern Europe as a story of the irresistible attraction between democracy and capitalism.

13. Faced with growing discontent, as rising expectations clash with lowered economic performance, post-communist rulers turn to nationalism to preserve their own power.

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14. The comparison is justified by their shared culture and history, as well as by their comparable levels of socio-economic development at the outset of the post-communist transition.

15. This term is used by movements that have appeared in the post-communist world in Central and Eastern Europe, and Central Asia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

16. Election observation took shape in the post-Cold War years, as a number of regions, in particular Africa and post-communist eastern Europe, held multiparty elections for the first time.

17. However, the illusion of a miracle happening after the collapse of Communism (an illusion that afflicts all post-Communist countries) remains just that—an illusion.

18. The most likely scenario is one that we have seen elsewhere in the post-communist world.