Soviet Union And Satellite States Map

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Soviet union and satellite states map. Soviet satellite states interwar period. I ve been studying the soviet union and its successor states since i began my graduate work at sais in 1984. At columbia see about above. Interactive maps of former satellite states of the soviet union.

These countries were the closest allies of the soviet union and were members of the comecon a soviet led economic community founded in 1949 as well as the warsaw pact sometimes called the eastern bloc in english and widely viewed as soviet satellite states these countries were occupied or had a period occupied by soviet army and their politics military foreign and domestic. Wired has a fantastic feature on some of the most intricate and unsettling maps we ve ever seen. Russia small map 2016 51 2k. These were called satellite states because they bordered russia and while the nations were technically independent they were under soviet control.

The map above illustrates the manner in which satellite states were created by the soviet union. Europe reference map 2008 1 mb pdf. In the meantime state after state in eastern europe fell under communist control and soviet influence. Asia reference map 2007 920k and pdf format 514k.

When the mongolian revolution of 1921 broke out mongolian revolutionaries expelled russian white guards during the russian civil war of 1917 1923 following the communist october revolution of 1917 from mongolia with the assistance of the soviet red army the revolution also officially ended manchurian sovereignty over mongolia which had existed. Central intelligence agency unless otherwise indicated. Russia and the former soviet republics historical maps. The soviet military or some other faction within the government of the ussr made maps.

I started this blog in march 2014 as a way to share my take on the unfolding drama in ukraine but as the title suggests i plan to cover a broad range of topics. When the soviet union suffered from being invaded twice by germany one in 1914 and again in 1941 joseph stalin created the soviet satellite states as buffer zones between the enemy country and the controlling nation over the satellites. The following maps were produced by the u s. Bulgaria interactive map czech interactive republic map hungary interactive map.

The story of two countries will serve to illustrate the nature of the soviet takeover. In december of 1991 the soviet union the union of soviet socialist republics or u s s r was officially dissolved.