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CBSE - Civics - Democracy in the Contemporary World

Democracy in the Contemporary World

Long Answer Type

Explain the Recent Phase of establishment of democracies in the world. 

1. After 1980, as democracy was revived in several countries of Latin America. The disintegration of the Soviet Union accelerated this process from the story of Poland. We know that the then Soviet Union controlled many of its neighboring communist countries in Eastern Europe. Poland and several other countries became free from the control of the Soviet Union during 1989-90. They chose to become democracies.

2. Finally the Soviet Union itself broke down in 1991. The Soviet Union Comprised 15 republics. All the constituent republics emerged as independent countries. Most of them became democracies.

3. In this period Pakistan and Bangladesh made transition from army rule to democracy in 1990.

4. In Nepal, the king gave up many of his powers to become a constitutional monarch to be guided by elected leaders. 

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