For conservatives, various forms of Russian nationalism have replaced Communism as a unifying ideology.
But critics accuse him of building a personal patronage machine to replace Communism.
They recognize they face something new, without precedent in their history, just as the Eastern states have no precedent for replacing Communism with liberal democracies.
A1 Boris Yeltsin moved to assure critics and worried republics that he is not bent on replacing Communism with a resurgent Russia.
They use nationalism to replace Communism.
He has cultivated nationalism as the new ideological "glue" to hold China together, replacing Communism, in ways that breed anti-Americanism.
Nationalism, he said, had replaced Communism as the main ideological currency in the Balkans.
Bulging bellies have not exactly replaced Communism in the annals of the Pentagon fears.
In the post-cold-war world, the bureaucracy has replaced Communism as the enemy that pulls the party together.
Poland's trailblazing economic program to replace Communism with capitalism has slashed inflation, stabilized the nation's currency and made food lines a thing of the past.