Vietnam’s pre-Communist values have played their part in all this.

The three other groups want a state more in the political mainstream, along the lines of pre-Communist governments before 1978.

Instead, many adopted portions of their pre-Communist civil law codes.

It is not only that the restaurants today are more elegant than the best of the pre-Communist era.

For some others, the monarchy is revered as a link to the pre-Communist past.

My grandmother, a daughter of a department store owner in pre-Communist China, went to private schools.

In the countryside women wear the veil as in the pre-Communist era.

It has become one of the more enduring creations from the nation's pre-communist era and copies are still sold today.

Pre-Communist and Communist thinkers were especially energetic in this belief.

A major party in the pre-Communist era.

His father was a Supreme Court judge in pre-Communist China.

Catholicism was an important feature of both social and political life in pre-Communist Slovenia.

During the cultural revolution, owning, inheriting or exchanging pre-communist works of art was banned.

In pre-Communist China, wealthy families hired physicians to keep them in good health.

This was especially true in prerevolutionary Russia and pre-Communist Poland.

But this was the only pre-Communist site I had seen in North Korea.

Chongqing, the wartime capital of China, had been a hub of organised crime in pre-communist days.

A wonderfully saucy novella set in the pre-communist Cuba of Hemingway’s time.

Operating since 1858, it has been restored to pre-Communist glory, with paneled walls and polished brass.

The area falls within the “nine-dashed line”, dating to maps from the pre-Communist era in the late 1940s, that China says proves its sovereignty.

The only family events that rivaled funerals for lavishness in pre-Communist China were marriages.

Initially, most nations exiting from Communism reached out, almost instinctively, to their immediate pre-Communist period.

The Ghegs were dominant in the political life of Albania in the pre-communist period.

Many of Buck’s fellow foreigners in pre-Communist China, where she grew up, kept the Chinese at a distance.

Church Recovers School A few schools have already converted to their pre-Communist status.