World Strategic History: 1990

Legend:

Nations under essential or full Communist control

Openly Communist-dominated governments, or Communist-controlled regions within the country

Nations in which Communist control remains more concealed (or insufficient information to make a determination)


Changes since 1980:

Burkina Faso (Upper Volta)
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1982
Sinai Peninsula
(Israel, now Egypt)
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1982
Sri Lanka
(upgraded to partly Communist)
 		 1983
Grenada
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 		 1983
Uganda
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1986
Liberia
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1990
Lebanon
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1990
East Germany
(downgraded to officially non-Communist)
 		 1990
Chad
(upgraded to fully Communist)
 		 1990


Communist-occupied nations, with year of takeover
(and of neo-Communist renewal, where applicable):

Afghanistan
 		 1978
 
Albania
 		 1944
 
Algeria
 		 1962
 
Angola
 		 1975
 
Bangladesh
 		 1971
 
Benin
 		 1972
 
Bulgaria
 		 1944
 
Burkina Faso
(Upper Volta)
 		 1982
 
Burundi
 		 1966
 
Cambodia
 		 1975
 
Cape Verde
 		 1974
 
Chad
 		 1990
 
China (mainland)
 		 1949
 
Congo Republic
 		 1963
 
Cuba
 		 1959
 
Czechoslovakia
 		 1939
(renewal 1989)
 
Egypt
 		 1952
(renewal 1976)
 
Equatorial Guinea
 		 1972
 
Ethiopia
 		 1974
 
Ghana
(originally Communist 1960-1966)
 		 1979
 
Guinea
 		 1958
 
Guinea-Bissau
 		 1974
 
Guyana
 		 1966
 
Hungary
 		 1944
(renewal 1989)
 
Iran
 		 1979
 
Iraq
 		 1958
 
Korea (North)
 		 1945
 
Laos
 		 1975
 
Lebanon
 		 1990
 
Liberia
 		 1990
 
Libya
 		 1969
 
(Soviet) Lithuania
 		 1939
(renewal 1990)
 
Madagascar
 		 1972
 
Mali
 		 1960
 
Mauritania
 		 1979
 
Mongolia
 		 1921
(renewal 1990)
 
Mozambique
 		 1975
 
Myanmar (Burma)
 		 1962
 
Nicaragua
 		 1979
(renewal 1990)
 
Poland
 		 1939
(renewal 1989)
 
Romania
 		 1944
(renewal 1989)
 
São Tomé & Príncipe
 		 1974
 
Seychelles
 		 1977
 
Somalia
 		 1969
(renewal 1977)
 
Soviet Union
(Russia 1917)
 		 1922
 
Sudan
 		 1969
 
Suriname
 		 1980
 
Syria
 		 1949
 
Tanzania
 		 1964
 
Uganda
 		 1986
 
Vietnam
(North taken by Communists 1954)
 		 1975
 
Yemen
(North taken by Communists 1962)
 		 1967
(renewal 1990)
 
Yugoslavia
 		 1941
 
Zambia
 		 1964
 
Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
 		 1979
 

Partly-Communist nations, with starting year of crisis:
Colombia
 		 1965
Cyprus
 		 1955
El Salvador
 		 1980
Namibia (South-West Africa)
 		 1966
Niger
 		 1974
Peru
 		 1980
Philippines
 		 1969
Senegal
 		 1960
Sri Lanka
 		 1983
Western Sahara (Morocco)
 		 1976