Soviet Union Satellite Nations Map

In asia the soviet bloc comprised the mongolian people s republic the socialist republic of vietnam the lao people s democratic republic and the people s republic of kampuchea the democratic people s republic of korea and the people s republic of china before the sino soviet split in 1961.
Soviet union satellite nations map. Bulgaria interactive map czech interactive republic map hungary interactive map. In western europe the term eastern bloc generally referred to the ussr and its satellite states in the comecon east germany poland czechoslovakia hungary romania bulgaria and albania. The tuvan people s republic was proclaimed independent in 1921 and was a satellite state of soviet union until its annexation in 1944 by the soviet union. Following the dissolution of the soviet society ukssr was renamed as ukraine and its new constitution was approved on june 28 1996.
Soviet ukraine was the un s founding member but the all union state acted as its legal representative in matters concerning other countries that were not a part of the ussr. In december of 1991 the soviet union the union of soviet socialist republics or u s s r was officially dissolved. The soviet satellite states were yugoslavia albania czechoslovakia east germany poland romania and hungary. Soviet union in full union of soviet socialist republics u s s r russian soyuz sovetskikh sotsialisticheskikh respublik or sovetsky soyuz former northern eurasian empire 1917 22 1991 stretching from the baltic and black seas to the pacific ocean and in its final years consisting of 15 soviet socialist republics s s r s.
Another early soviet satellite state in asia was the short lived far east republic in siberia. The republics of the union of soviet socialist republics or union republics russian. Latvia map lithuania map moldova map russia map tajikistan map turkmenistan map ukraine uzbekistan map 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.
It was a one party state governed by the communist party with moscow as its capital in its. For most of its history the ussr was a highly centralized state. Armenia azerbaijan belorussia now belarus estonia georgia kazakhstan kirgiziya now kyrgyzstan latvia lithuania moldavia now moldova russia. The decentralization reforms during the era of perestroika restructuring and.
Soyúznye respúbliki were ethnically based administrative units of the union of soviet socialist republics ussr. The soviet union officially the union of soviet socialist republics ussr was a federal socialist state in northern eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. These were called satellite states because they bordered russia and while the nations were technically independent they were under soviet control.