Eastern Bloc
GROUP OF SOCIALIST STATES OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
Eastern Block; Soviet-bloc; East bloc; Socialist Bloc; Soviet Bloc; Soviet bloc; East Bloc; Communist block; Soviet block; Communist bloc; Communist Bloc; Eastern block; Ex-Communist countries; Eastern-bloc; Eastern bloc; Communist Eastern Europe; Communist Block; Eastern Bloc economies; Economy of the Eastern Bloc; Economies of the Eastern Bloc; List of the USSR Satellite states; Eastern bloc black markets; Socialist bloc; Soviet-aligned socialist states; Economies of the Soviet Bloc
The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc, the Socialist Bloc and the Soviet Bloc, was the group of socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America under the influence of the Soviet Union that existed during the Cold War (1945–1991). These states followed the ideology of Marxism–Leninism, in opposition to the capitalist Western Bloc.