Socialist Camp
사회주의 진영
The Soviet self-designation for the political-military bloc of communist states aligned around the USSR after World War II. It encompassed the people's democracies of Eastern Europe plus China, North Korea, North Vietnam, Mongolia, and later Cuba, forming one pole of the Cold War in opposition to the capitalist camp. The camp's unity was undermined by Yugoslavia's break in 1948 and the Sino-Soviet and Albanian splits in the 1960s; the term was gradually replaced by 'socialist commonwealth' and 'world socialist system.'
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- history-names.ru Социалистический лагерь: термин, которым после Второй мировой войны в СССР обозначались государства, пошедшие по пути строительства социализма; постепенно вышел из употребления после ухудшения советско-китайских отношений, заменён на «социалистическое содружество» и «мировая социалистическая система»
- Wikipedia (RU) Восточный блок: термин использовался на Западе для обозначения просоветских государств; советская сторона использовала «социалистический лагерь»
- cambridge.org Lorenz M. Lüthi, Cold Wars, Chapter 3: 'The Socialist Camp was a Soviet creation'; traces its formation, internal fractures, and enforcement through military intervention
- Marxists Internet Archive Charles Gagnon (1980): documents the 1960 Moscow Meeting of 81 communist parties, the last document agreed upon by the communist movement as a whole, referencing thirteen parties from the socialist camp