As China's leaders try to tug the nation toward greater central planning and more orthodox Communism, people here on the country's sun-drenched southern frontier are enthusiastically pulling in the other direction.

Since the Vietnamese government began edging away from orthodox Communism in 1987 - a policy called doi moi, or renovation - the outlook for artists has improved.

The poll did not ask specifically about private commercial property, which is a taboo of orthodox Communism.

State or collective ownership of "the means of production" is a central tenet of orthodox Communism.

The party, which represents anti-establishment views similar to West Germany's Greens, is holding its convention here in recognition of Hungary's recent progress away from orthodox Communism.

Since World War II, it has been almost impossible for Albanians to leave their country, one of the poorest in Europe and the continent's last bastion of orthodox Communism.

Even in its current, diluted form, the draft economic plan has met resistance from traditionalists, who argue that it moves too far from orthodox Communism toward capitalism.

Albania, Europe's last bastion of orthodox Communism, denied the charges, but the Athens spokesman countered today that Greece had "ample proof to the contrary."

Since Oleksandr Moroz organized the left-centrist Socialist Party of Ukraine his party ideology largely evolved from orthodox Communism to Social democracy.

The phrase "economic reform" is used by the Chinese leadership to describe the set of policies aimed at driving the country away from orthodox Communism toward a more market-oriented economy freed from government controls.