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Soviet empire

The term "Soviet empire" collectively refers to the world's territories that the Soviet Union dominated politically, economically, and militarily. This phenomenon, particularly in the context of the Cold War, is used by Sovietologists to describe the extent of the Soviet Union's hegemony over the Second World.

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Communist states aligned with the Soviet Union

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Soviet empire

Nodes232
Edges231
Triples96
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.008621
Components1

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Soviet empire

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related to Further reading · 39
Soviet empire → Adam, Brian, China, Coexistence, Cold War, Comrades, Crozier, Dallin, David, Expansion, Failed Empire, Fall, Far East, Friedman, Gorbachev, Jan, Japan, Jeremy, Joseph, Librach
related to Characteristics · 32
Soviet empire → Academically, Although, Another, Central Asia, Christianity, Communism, Developed Socialism, Eastern Europe, For, Josip Broz Tito, Kyrgyz, Kyrgyzstan, Leonid Brezhnev, Milovan Djilas, Nationalism, Richard Pipes, Russification, Several, Seweryn Bialer, Slavic
related to Formal or informal empire · 19
Soviet empire → Another, Communist Parties, Dmitri Trenin, Empire, Eric Hobsbawn, Ian Bremmer, In, Lenin's, Moscow, Scholars, Some, Soviet, Soviet Union, Stalin's, The, The Soviet, The USSR, Thomas Winderl, Warsaw Pact

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soviet union empire countries war states finland foreign policy eastern socialist informal economic military world east cold warsaw pact russian

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Christianity or monarchyinstance ofempire with communism only replacing conventional imperial ideologies0.80text
rather than creating a revolutionary stateinstance ofempire with communism only replacing conventional imperial ideologies0.80text
the Chinese Eastern Railwayinstance ofbut the Soviets secretly kept tsarist concessions0.80text
as well as consulatesinstance ofbut the Soviets secretly kept tsarist concessions0.80text
barracksinstance ofbut the Soviets secretly kept tsarist concessions0.80text
and churchesinstance ofbut the Soviets secretly kept tsarist concessions0.80text
Soviet empirerelated to CharacteristicsAlthough0.60section
Soviet empirerelated to CharacteristicsSoviet Union0.60section
Soviet empirerelated to CharacteristicsThe0.60section
Soviet empirerelated to CharacteristicsSoviet0.60section
Soviet empirerelated to CharacteristicsChristianity0.60section
Soviet empirerelated to CharacteristicsAcademically0.60section

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