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| Formation |
Secret Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact protocol • Soviet invasion of Poland • Soviet occupations Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina • Baltic states • Hungary • Romania Yalta Conference |
Annexed as, or
into, SSRs |
Eastern Finland • Estonia • Latvia • Lithuania • Memel • East Prussia • West Belarus • Western Ukraine • Moldavia |
| 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 |
| Satellite states |
Hungarian People's Republic • People's Republic of Poland • Czechoslovak Socialist Republic • Romanian People's Republic/Socialist Republic of Romania • East Germany • People's Republic of Albania (to 1961) • People's Republic of Bulgaria • Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (to 1948) |
| Allied states |
Hungarian People's Republic • Polish People's Republic • Czechoslovak Socialist Republic Socialist Republic of Romania German Democratic Republic People's Republic of Albania • (to 1961) People's Republic of Bulgaria • Republic of Cuba • Mongolian People's Republic • Socialist Republic of Vietnam |
| Annexing SSRs |
Russian SFSR • Ukrainian SSR • Byelorussian SSR |
| Organizations |
Cominform • COMECON • Warsaw Pact • World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) • World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) |
| Related organizations |
Cominform • COMECON • Warsaw Pact World Federation of • Trade Unions (WFTU) • World Federation of • Democratic Youth (WFDY) |
Revolts and
opposition |
Welles Declaration • Goryani Movement • Forest Brothers • Ukrainian Insurgent Army • Operation Jungle • Baltic state continuity • Baltic Legations (1940-1991) • Cursed soldiers • Rebellion of Cazin 1950 • 1953 uprising in Plzeň • 1953 East German uprising • 1956 Georgian demonstrations • 1956 Poznań protests • 1956 Hungarian Revolution • Novocherkassk massacre • 1965 Yerevan demonstrations • Prague Spring / Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia • Brezhnev Doctrine • 1968 Red Square demonstration • Belgrade 1968 students' demonstrations • 1968 Kosovo protests • 1970 Polish protests • Croatian Spring • 1972 unrest in Lithuania SSR • June 1976 protests • Solidarity / Soviet reaction / Martial law • 1981 Kosovo protests • Reagan Doctrine • Jeltoqsan • Karabakh movement • April 9 tragedy • Romanian Revolution • Black January |
| Dissent and opposition |
Forest Brothers in Lithuania • in Latvia • in Estonia Operation "Jungle" Ukrainian Insurgent Army • Goryani movement (Bulgaria) • Romanian anti-communism 1953 uprisings in Plzeň • in East Germany 1956 protests in Georgia • in Poznań Hungarian Revolution of 1956 • Novocherkassk massacre (Russia) 1968 events Prague Spring • Invasion of Czechoslovakia • Red Square demonstration Charter 77 (Czechoslovakia) Solidarity (Poland) Jeltoqsan (Kazakhstan) Braşov Rebellion (Romania) April 9 tragedy (Georgia) Black January (Azerbaijan) |
| Cold War events |
Marshall Plan 1948 Czechoslovak coup Tito-Stalin split Berlin Blockade 1961 Berlin Wall crisis 1980 Moscow Olympics Marshall Plan • Berlin Blockade • Tito-Stalin split • 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état • 1961 Berlin Wall crisis |
| Decline |
Revolutions of 1989 • Fall of the Berlin Wall • Fall of communism in Albania • Singing Revolution • Collapse of the Soviet Union • Dissolution of Czechoslovakia • January 1991 events in Lithuania • January 1991 events in Latvia |
| Fall |
Singing Revolution • Polish Round Table Agreement • Revolutions of 1989 • Fall of the Berlin Wall • January 1991 in Lithuania • Barricadesin Latvia • Breakup of Yugoslavia • End of the Soviet Union • Fall of communism in Albania • Dissolution of Czechoslovakia |
| Conditions |
Emigration and defection (list of defectors) • Sovietization of the Baltic states • Information dissemination • Politics • Economies • Telephone tapping |