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Eastern bloc, group of eastern European countries that were aligned militarily, politically, economically, and culturally with the Soviet Union approximately from 1945 to 1990. Members included Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia.
- Sebastian Gehrig
- Paul Betts
- Idesbald Goddeeris
University of Roehampton Sebastian.Gehrig@roehampton.ac.uk
St Antony’s College, University of Oxford paul.betts@sant.ox.ac.uk
KU Leuven University idesbald.goddeeris@kuleuven.be
The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc (Combloc), the Socialist Bloc, and the Soviet Bloc, was the coalition of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America that were aligned with the Soviet Union and existed during the Cold War (1947–1991).
Nov 29, 2022 · Psychology and the fall of Communism: The special case of (East) Germany. This paper is a revised, shortened, and updated version of a Keynote Lecture presented at the conference of the European Society for History of Human Sciences in Budapest, on July 5, 2019.
Nov 8, 2022 · What Was The Eastern Bloc? The concept of the Eastern Bloc is a nebulous one and, therefore, worth taking the time to dismantle and simplify as much as possible. Its formation history and identity spans nearly a hundred years, up until a sudden collapse in the summer of 1990.
- Cory Price
Feb 23, 2023 · Before the news media created the “Socialist Bloc” or “Eastern Bloc,” an expression coined as a result of World War II, the vast territory between Germany and Russia was divided into Central and Eastern Europe.
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Situated in the boundary zone between the Austro-Hungarian, German, Russian, and Ottoman empires, Eastern Europe was a playground of imperial struggle from the early modern period onwards.
