Совет Экономической Взаимопомощи Sovét Ekonomícheskoy Vzaimopómoshchi (BGN/PCGN Russian) Sovet Ekonomičeskoj Vzaimopomošči (GOST Russian)
1949–1991
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Map of Comecon member states as of November 1986 Comecon as of November 1986: Members Members that left the Warsaw Pact (Albania) Associate members Observers
Headquarters
Moscow, Soviet Union
Official languages
10 languages
Russian
Bulgarian
Czech
German
Hungarian
Mongolian
Polish
Romanian
Spanish
Vietnamese
Type
Economic union
Member states
See list
Albania[a]
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
Cuba
East Germany[b]
Hungary
Mongolia
Poland
Romania
Soviet Union
Vietnam
Historical era
Cold War
• Organization established
5–8 January 1949
• Dissolution of Comecon
28 June 1991
• Dissolution of the Soviet Union
26 December 1991
Area
1960
23,422,281 km2 (9,043,393 sq mi)
1989
25,400,231 km2 (9,807,084 sq mi)
Population
• 1989
504 million
Currency
10 currencies
Soviet ruble
East German mark
Polish złoty
Czechoslovak koruna
Romanian leu
Bulgarian lev
Hungarian forint
Cuban peso
Mongolian tögrög
Vietnamese đồng
Driving side
right
Succeeded by
Commonwealth of Independent States
Eurasian Economic Community
European Economic Community
GUAM
OECD
Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America
ASEAN
Baltic Assembly
Visegrád Group
Craiova Group
Albania
Mongolia
Turkmenistan
Eastern Bloc
Republicsof theUSSR
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Byelorussia
Estonia
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Kirghizia
Latvia
Lithuania
Moldavia
Russia
Tajikistan
Turkmenia
Ukraine
Uzbekistan
Allied and satellite states
Afghanistan
Albania (until 1961)
Angola
Benin
Bulgaria
China (until 1961)
Congo
Cuba
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Ethiopia
Grenada
Hungary
Kampuchea
Laos
Mongolia
Mozambique
North Korea
Poland (until 1989)
Romania
Somalia (until 1977)
South Yemen
Vietnam (North Vietnam, PRG)
Yugoslavia (until 1948)
Related organizations
Warsaw Pact
Comecon
Cominform
World Federation of Trade Unions
World Federation of Democratic Youth
Dissent and opposition
Anti-Soviet partisans
Albania
Bulgaria
Croatia
Poland
Romania
Serbia
Ukraine
Guerrilla war in the Baltic states
Soviet occupation
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Operation Jungle
Protests and uprisings
Poland 1944–1989
Poznań 1956
1980–89
Plzeň 1953
East Germany 1953
Georgia 1956
Hungary 1956
Novocherkassk 1962
Prague 1968
Invasion
Moscow
Czechoslovakia 1976–90
Romania 1977
Kazakhstan 1986
Brașov 1987
Tbilisi 1989
Ukraine 1989–1991
Baku 1990
Lithuania 1991
Riga 1991
Cold War events
Marshall Plan
Czechoslovak coup
Tito–Stalin split
Berlin Blockade
Korean War
Secret Speech
Sino-Soviet split
Albanian–Soviet split
De-satellization of the Socialist Republic of Romania
Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam War
Cuban intervention in Angola
Afghan War
1980 Moscow Olympics
1984 Los Angeles Olympics
Gulf War
Fall
Singing Revolution
Polish Round Table Agreement
Revolutions of 1989
Fall of the Berlin Wall
January Events
Barricades in Latvia
Breakup of Yugoslavia
Yugoslav Wars
End of the Soviet Union
Post-Soviet conflicts
Fall of communism in Albania
Dissolution of Czechoslovakia
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The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Russian: Сове́т Экономи́ческой Взаимопо́мощи, romanized: Sovét Ekonomícheskoy Vzaimopómoshchi, СЭВ; English abbreviation COMECON, CMEA, CEMA, or CAME) was an economic organization from 1949 to 1991 under the leadership of the Soviet Union that comprised the countries of the Eastern Bloc along with a number of socialist states elsewhere in the world.[1]
The descriptive term was often applied to all multilateral activities involving members of the organization, rather than being restricted to the direct functions of Comecon and its organs.[2] This usage was sometimes extended as well to bilateral relations among members because in the system of communist international economic relations, multilateral accords – typically of a general nature – tended to be implemented through a set of more detailed, bilateral agreements.[3]
Comecon was the Eastern Bloc's response to the formation in Western Europe of the Marshall Plan and the OEEC, which later became the OECD.[3]
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^Michael C. Kaser, Comecon: Integration problems of the planned economies (Oxford University Press, 1967).
^For example, this is the usage in the Library of Congress Country Study that is heavily cited in the present article.
^ ab"Appendix B: The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance: Germany (East)". Library of Congress Country Study. Archived from the original on 1 May 2009.
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