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  • adjective After socialism.

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post- +‎ socialist

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Examples

  • In contrast to Mandelson, Brown has his roots in the left wing of the party, many of whose members would be cheered by his government's postsocialist intervention.

    Gordon’s Comeback 2008

  • While officials of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees boasted of their successful refugee repatriation program in Mozambique, and the international community (led by the United States and the World Bank-IMF alliance) held the country up as a model of postsocialist democratization and economic restructuring, Magude remained an exceptional, troubled place, the one district in the south to which refugees were, at first, extremely reluctant to return, and where foreign and domestic NGOs, as late as 1995-96, were still unusually hesitant about sending personnel and investing resources.

    Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

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