Curated category
Communist states
- North VietnamOn the 2nd of September 1945, Hồ Chí Minh stood before a crowd in Ba Dinh Square and declared independence. He proclaimed the creation of the Democratic…
- Socialist Federal Republic of YugoslaviaOn the 29th of November 1943, the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia met in Partisan-liberated Jajce to declare Democratic…
- North KoreaThe Korean Peninsula rises like a sea in a heavy gale, according to early European visitors who marveled at its successive mountain ranges.
- Socialist Republic of RomaniaOn the 6th of March 1945, a new pro-Soviet government took power in Bucharest after mass demonstrations by communist sympathizers and intense political…
- Hungarian People's RepublicThe Red Army entered Hungary in 1945 and seized control of the country's political affairs shortly after World War II ended.
- LaosIn 2009, archaeologists recovered an anatomically modern human skull from the Tam Pa Ling Cave in the Annamite Mountains of northern Laos.
- Communist stateThe first constitutionally communist state emerged in Soviet Russia at the end of 1917. This nation joined other former territories to form the Soviet Union…
- Czechoslovak Socialist RepublicOn the 25th of February 1948, President Edvard Beneš capitulated to Soviet pressure and appointed a Communist-dominated government.
- Polish People's RepublicIn February 1945, the Red Army occupied the entire country of Poland. Joseph Stalin presented his Western allies with a fait accompli at the Yalta Conference.
- Russian Soviet Federative Socialist RepublicOn the 7th of November 1917, the Russian Soviet Republic emerged as a sovereign state following the October Revolution. This event marked the creation of the…
- Mongolian People's RepublicIn July 1921, cavalry under Damdin Sükhbaatar captured the capital of Mongolia with Soviet troop support. This event marked the Mongolian People's Revolution…
- People's Republic of BulgariaOn the 9th of September, communist guerrillas launched a coup d'état which de facto ended the rule of the Bulgarian monarchy.
- People's Socialist Republic of AlbaniaOn the 29th of November 1944, partisan forces entered the capital city of Tirana to liberate Albania from Axis occupation.
- ChinaIn 221 BCE, King Zheng of Qin conquered six rival states to unify China under the first emperor. This ruler enacted legalist reforms that standardized…
- Soviet UnionIn November 1917, Vladimir Lenin led the Bolsheviks to seize power from the Provisional Government in Petrograd. Workers and soldiers had formed councils…
- VietnamStone artefacts excavated in Gia Lai province have been claimed to date to 780,000 years ago. This claim remains challenged because tektites are often found…
- CubaCuba is an archipelago of 4,195 islands, cays and islets located in the northern Caribbean Sea at the convergence of the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic…