The Eastern Bloc is a collective term for the former Communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe. This generally encompasses the Soviet Union and...

The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc (Combloc), the Socialist Bloc, and the Soviet Bloc, was the collective term for an unofficial coalition...

in place in non-Soviet countries of the Eastern Bloc, which consisted of the Communist states of Central and Eastern Europe (except for non-aligned Yugoslavia)...

imposed by countries in the Eastern Bloc, which consisted of the Soviet Union and its satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe. Legal emigration...

Eastern Bloc politics followed the Red Army's occupation of much of Central and Eastern Europe at the end of World War II and the Soviet Union's installation...

Eastern Bloc media and propaganda was controlled directly by each country's communist party, which controlled the state media, censorship and propaganda...

see the rise of communism and would ally themselves to the communist bloc include Mongolia, China, North Korea, Cuba and Vietnam. The spread of the communist...

formations in the Eastern Bloc. A candidate for ZOMO had to have a height of at least 180 cm and a weight of at least 90 kg. After the 1968 expansion...

demonstration of communist tactics for seizing power, placing it within the post-WWII context of the formation of the Eastern Bloc and the People's Republic of China...

that it was more a merging of the eastern "Blocs" and the western "parties", in the political sense. He also notes that the name was not explicitly driven...

The Bloc of Communists and Socialists (Romanian: Blocul Comuniștilor și Socialiștilor, BCS), previously known as the Electoral Bloc of Communists and Socialists...

Subvert the Soviet Bloc, 1947–1956. p. 206. "Memorandum by the Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs (Barrett) to the Director of the Policy...

in Central and Eastern Europe, emphasizing regional cooperation. All of the parties in CEEGLA are from former members of the Eastern Bloc, and two are former...

between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War. The term "Warsaw...

Telephone tapping in the Eastern Bloc was a widespread method of the mass surveillance of the population by the secret police. In the past, telephone tapping...

demographic bloc and all states outside the South in the 1952 presidential election. He ended the Korean War, maintained the peace in Asia and the Middle East...

Army Roter Frontkämpferbund - Interwar period predecessor Eastern Bloc politics Similar formations: People's Militias ORMO Workers' Militia Patriotic Guards...

under the leadership of the Soviet Union that comprised the countries of the Eastern Bloc along with a number of socialist states elsewhere in the world...

collapse of most Marxist–Leninist governments in the Eastern Bloc and other parts of the world. This revolutionary wave is sometimes referred to as the Autumn...

the presidency of the Indian National Congress on 29 April after being outmaneuvered by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The formation of the Forward Bloc...

as a social democratic party, it shifted to the centre-right during the formation of Petro Poroshenko Bloc in 2014. Since then, it has been described as...

Angeles.[citation needed] In the United States this command is termed an army region. Some countries such as Brazil. Eastern Bloc People's Liberation Army...

powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union, its allies in the Warsaw Pact and later the People's Republic of China). February 4–11: The Yalta Conference...

and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term...

against the Eastern Bloc. It dissolved in 1996, following the end of the Cold War. In the 1930s, in the region of Galicia which at the time was a part of Poland...

The Vietnam War involved many countries across the world. North Vietnam received support from the Eastern Bloc, while South Vietnam was generally supported...

states on its border in an Eastern bloc. Stalin's aims led to strained relations at the Yalta Conference (February 1945) and the subsequent Potsdam Conference...

half of Eastern Orthodox Christians live in the post Eastern Bloc countries, mostly in Russia. The communities in the former Byzantine regions of North...

The Syria Turkmen Bloc (Turkish: Suriye Türkmen Kitlesi) or Syrian Turkmen National Bloc (Arabic: الكتلة الوطنية التركمانية السورية) is one of the two...

main allies were the USSR and the Eastern Bloc. The Greek Civil War had broken out in spring 1946, but it was not until June 1947 that the Greek Communists...