It was a driving force in the quick transition of these post-totalitarian states into more or less liberal democracies today. From Wordnik.com. [Ukraine's German Chance] Reference
Over the past five years, observers have applied a variety of post-authoritarian and post-totalitarian lessons from history to anticipate the direction of a post-Saddam, post-invasion Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [Yahia Said: Stability in Iraq, Putin Style] Reference
Having predicted the speedy downfall of the regime back in 1994, Pyongyang-watchers now predict that it will be around forever, but North Korea is already well into a precarious post-totalitarian phase. From Wordnik.com. [Mother of All Mothers] Reference
In it he argued that the countries of the East Bloc were under the rule of post-totalitarian regimes that appealed to popular desires for consumer goods, in order to secure domination over their populations. From Wordnik.com. [Making the History of 1989] Reference
Moving quickly toward Iraqi self-rule, he argued, would hand over the country to whatever political forces happened to be standing in a post-totalitarian Iraq -- most likely extremist, illiberal and intolerant groups. From Wordnik.com. [How To Make Friends In Iraq] Reference
Gibson also mentions the afterimages of totalitarianism -- the ways that in post-totalitarian societies like today's Russia, "what constitutes the public face of leadership would inevitably have been shaped by the tropes of totalitarian kitsch.". From Wordnik.com. [Julian Baird Gewirtz: Thoughts on Kitsch and Culture after Mao] Reference
Gwendolyn Albert's first-hand accounts of persecution of the Roma in the supposedly "post-totalitarian" Czech Republic. From Wordnik.com. [World War 4 Report - Deconstructing the War on Terrorism] Reference
It was a major driving force in the rapid transition of these post-totalitarian states into the more or less liberal democracies they are today. From Wordnik.com. [openDemocracy] Reference
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