The Soviet Union and Eastern Satellites
Bulgaria
Romania
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
German Democratic Republic
 

Relationship Institutionalized

Militarily through the Warsaw Pact

Economically through the Council on Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON)
 

 
Attempted Mutinies

Hungary 1956

Reformist elements in the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party

Imre Nagy – elected to premiership after Stalin’s death
 Promised reforms – ousted by conservatives in party
 
Dissident, student pressure
April 1956 – returned Nagy to premiership with Janos Kadar as party first secretary

Oct 1956 – student demonstrations

Nov 1956 – Nagy announces restoration of multiparty system
Appointment of non-party members to the cabinet
Hungary’s withdrawal from the Warsaw pact

Nov 4 – invasion by Soviets/Warsaw Pact countries

Nagy executed in 1968

 
The Czechoslovak Revolt

Prague Spring 1968
 

Dubcek – socialism with a human face

Student demonstrations

Invasion – Aug 1968