Soviet Control of Eastern Europe and Its Challenges

Soviet control of Eastern Europe and the challenges to it. The nature of the Soviet bloc and the satellite states; the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 and its suppression; the Prague Spring of 1968 and the formulation of the Brezhnev Doctrine; the rise of the Solidarity movement in Poland in the 1980s; and the methods — military, political and economic — the USSR used to maintain control over the bloc.