History
Eastern Bloc |
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Soviet Socialist Republics
Armenian SSR · Azerbaijan SSR Byelorussian SSR · Estonian SSR Georgian SSR · Kazakh SSR · Kirghiz SSR Latvian SSR · Lithuanian SSR Moldavian SSR · Russian SFSR · Tajik SSR Turkmen SSR · Ukrainian SSR · Uzbek SSR |
States of the Eastern Bloc
People's Republic of Hungary People's Republic of Poland Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Romanian People's Republic / Socialist Republic of Romania German Democratic Republic (East Germany) People's Republic of Albania People's Republic of Bulgaria Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia |
Related organisations
Cominform · COMECON Warsaw Pact World Federation of Trade Unions World Federation of Democratic Youth |
Dissent and opposition
Goryani Movement · Ukrainian Insurgent Army Romanian anti-communist resistance 1953 uprisings in Plzeň · in East Germany 1956 protests in Georgia · in Poznań Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Novocherkassk massacre Prague Spring Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia 1968 Red Square demonstration Solidarity · Jeltoqsan · Braşov Rebellion April 9 tragedy · Black January · Charter 77 |
Cold War events
Marshall Plan · Berlin Blockade Tito–Stalin split · 1948 Czechoslovak coup 1961 Berlin Wall crisis 1980 Moscow Olympics |
Decline
Revolutions of 1989 Polish Round Table Agreement Fall of the Berlin Wall Fall of communism in Albania Singing Revolution Collapse of the Soviet Union Dissolution of Czechoslovakia January 1991 in Lithuania · in Latvia |
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