The Ascent & Autumn Of Communism

The Spread of Communism is an animated Leaflet map showing the ascent as well as autumn of global communism from 1917 to 2017. Starting amongst the Russian Revolution inwards 1917 communist countries are colored ruby on the map during the twelvemonth that they roughshod to communism. The ruby dry soil shapefiles are as well as so removed from the map past times the twelvemonth when communism was overturned.

The information for the dates when countries became communist as well as when communism was overturned comes from Wikipedia. The dry soil shapefiles for the map come upward from Geo-Maps. Geo-Maps is a collection of GeoJSON files from OpenStreetMap. The map includes political dry soil borders, coastlines, seas as well as rivers.

One occupation amongst using i laid upward of dry soil shapefiles is that the map thence doesn't describe of piece of work concern human relationship for shifting dry soil borders over time. The catamenia of history covered past times the Spread of Communism saw political borders alter dramatically approximately the world. For illustration on this map the whole of Deutschland is shown every bit existence communist from 1950 to 1990 - presumably because Geo-Maps doesn't bring a GeoJSON file for East Germany.
You tin flaming encounter how much Europe changed inwards the 100 years from 1914 to 2014 on Radio Liberty's map comparison pre-World War I Europe to the Europe of today. Europe 1914 as well as 2014 allows yous to compare the 2 maps as well as thought how a some dry soil borders bring changed dramatically over the end i hundred years. Swipe to the left to bring out the 1914 map as well as swipe to the correct to thought the 2014 map.