With the fall of communism in most of the world, private ownership gained ascendancy as never before. Even in a number of countries that remained politically dominated by the Communist Party, such as China, private ownership of some form of property became permissible and was in some cases encouraged. The property picture that has emerged in the postcommunist world is fluid and highly complex. Postcommunist countries do not share any single regime of private property ownership. Indeed, within each country different forms of property may be subject to different regimes of ownership, including purely private ownership, various hybrid forms of ...(100 of 25704 words)