To What Extent was 'Sovietisation' imposed on Eastern Europe after 1945? Discuss with reference to at least two countries in the region - two countries referenced are Poland + Czechoslovakia

To What Extent was 'Sovietisation' imposed on Eastern Europe after 1945? Discuss with reference to at least two countries in the region The dominant conflict following the end of the Second World War was the hostility and competition between the Soviet Union and the West, in particular the United States. For decades the origins of this conflict, the cold war, has provided a basis for an enormous and varied histography. Central to any argument put forward …

…Marshall Plan was designed to contain communism. Though it was Stalin who made Poland and Czechoslovakia's decision, not there governing bodies. Word Count 3,062 Bibliography Brogan, Eastern Europe 1939 - 1989 (London 1990) Crampton, Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century (London 1994) Fowkes, Eastern Europe 1945 - 1969 (Edinburgh 2000) Kenez, A history of the Soviet Union from beginning to End (Cambridge 1999) Swain, Eastern Europe since 1945 (Cambridge 1999) Tampke, The Peoples Republics of Eastern Europe (London 1983) Websites, http://www.bartleby.com/65/st/steelind.html