Image: Communism in the Warsaw Pact (December 1989)

Description: Light pink = Leading role of the Communist party abolished from the Constitution: Hungary (18 October), Czechoslovakia (29 November) and East Germany (1 December) Light red = Party militia abolished: Poland (23 November) and Bulgaria (25 November) Dark red = Leading role of the Communist party abolished from the Constitution of individual Soviet Republic: Lithuanian SSR (7 December) Darkest red = Leading role of the Communist party enshrined in the Constitution; party militia active
Title: Communism in the Warsaw Pact (December 1989)
Credit: Blank_map_of_Europe_1956-1990.svg Literary sources: For all the Warsaw Pact except the Soviet Union: Michael Waller, Manchester University Press, 1993, The End of the Communist Power Monopoly, p. 227 Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Cambridge University Press, Feb 18, 2002, Redeeming the Communist Past: The Regeneration of Communist Parties in East Central Europe, p. 71 Michael Moran, Maurice Wright, Springer, Jul 27, 2016, The Market and the State: Studies in Interdependence, p. 116 For the Lithuanian SSR: A. Meleshevich, Springer, Jan 22, 2007, Party Systems in Post-Soviet Countries: A Comparative Study of Political Institutionalization in the Baltic States, Russia, and Ukraine, p. 127 Vera Tolz, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1990, The USSR's Emerging Multiparty System, p. 101
Author: Blank_map_of_Europe.svg: maix¿? Blank_map_of_Europe_1956-1990.svg, derivative work: Alphathon /'æɫfə.θɒn/ (talk) derivative work: Transylvania1916 (talk)
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