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By 2007, 10 of the 15 post-Soviet states had recovered their 1991 GDP levels. [56] According to economist Branko Milanović, in 2015 many former Soviet republics and other former communist countries still have not caught up to their 1991 levels of output, including Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Serbia, Tajikistan and Ukraine ...
A map of Europe as it appeared in 1815 after the Congress of Vienna. This article gives a detailed listing of all the countries, including puppet states, that have existed in Europe since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 to the present day. Each country has information separated into columns: name of the distinct country, its lifespan, the ...
Former countries in Europe after 1815; List of historic states of Germany – Former German constituent states; List of historic states of Italy – Historical states located in modern-day Italy; List of tribes and states in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine; Political history of the world
The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc (Combloc), the Socialist Bloc, and the Soviet Bloc, was the collective term for an unofficial 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).
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, about 25 million Russians (about a sixth of the former Soviet Russians) found themselves outside Russia and were about 10% of the population of the post-Soviet states other than Russia. Millions of them later became refugees from various interethnic conflicts. [4]
Post–Russian Empire states (30 C, 98 P) S. Saar Protectorate ... Pages in category "Former countries in Europe" The following 197 pages are in this category, out of ...
This category is for former states within the territory of the Russian Empire that existed during some period of time until the next major milestone in the history of the area: Dissolution of the Soviet Union. NB: Imperial Russia also included Poland, Finland and at some time Alaska (later sold to the United States).
The Soviet currency Soviet ruble banknotes all included writings in national languages of all the 15 union republics. All of the former Republics of the Union are now independent countries, with ten of them (all except the Baltic states, Georgia and Ukraine) being very loosely organized under the heading of the Commonwealth of Independent States.