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- adjective Before the introduction of
communism .
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Examples
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Our will be a little formula we might call the precommunist formula: everybody will receive according to his training.
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Now, with Marx and Engels dead and buried again at last, China's sexual attitudes are quickly reverting to the permissive standards of precommunist life.
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For Czechs, this is a happy return to the precommunist past.
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Many artworks, architectural treasures, and other cultural monuments associated with precommunist China were deliberately destroyed by the Red Guard.
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In Ladakh, however, and among most Mongol groups during the precommunist era, lama became a synonym for a monk.
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Thus, isolated from their teachers and peers, and lacking any checks or balances, many junior teachers in their loneliness adopted modes of behavior familiar from precommunist Tibet.
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