The word 'communist' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a person who is a member or supporter of a communist party, or to describe governments or societies that follow a communist system. Examples: The communist government of China has been in power since 1949. He was a dedicated communist who spent his entire life fighting to promote communist ideas.
When Poland became a communist state in 1947, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for joining the Home Army, serving seven.
This absence is at least partially explained by the thorough discrediting of nationalism after nazism and the fact that, unlike further east, communist elites did not become corrupt nouveaux riches (and therefore the subject of a rightwing backlash, as in Hungary, for instance).
Russia was already a victim of corruption dating back to the communist regime and beyond.
A Muslim community leader has accused Tony Abbott of using the citizenship discussion like the "reds under the bed" communist debate of the 1950s in order to win the next election.
It also signified that Zhang, who hailed from a family with a Chinese nationalist past and was once seen as a subversive film-maker, had been welcomed into the fold of official Communist party approval.
In the west, Karpov was seen as the Kremlin's man, a colourless, loyal communist.
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I wrote what I saw, gave it to my teacher and suddenly my thesis was submitted to the communist party.
Berény, the leader of a pre-first world war avant garde movement called the Group of Eights, fled to Berlin in 1920 after designing recruitment posters for Hungary's short-lived communist revolution in 1919.
The prime minister traced Hungary's freedom fight through the great revolutions of 1848 against Vienna, of 1956 against Soviet communism, and of 1989 when he played a starring role as a young student anti-communist leader.
It would be hard to argue that compared to other central and eastern European post-communist countries, united Germany failed to establish justice for victims of the GDR: lustration and purges were comparatively intensive and extensive, without deteriorating into the kind of witch-hunts that Poland experienced a few years back.
