The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953 · THE MAP IN JUN–AUG 1940

Map of the Soviet Union in June–August 1940

The labour decree; the Baltic states annexed · Stalin era

The Soviet Union in June–August 1940: The labour decree; the Baltic states annexed. Since September–December 1939, 8 territories changed status on this map: including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and 5 more.

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Map of the Soviet Union in June–August 1940 (Stalin era): The labour decree; the Baltic states annexed. Colours show The Soviet Union, Nazi Germany & its allies, Rivals & the Western bloc. — JUN–AUG 1940 · THE SOVIET UNION UNDER STALIN, 1924–1953

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1 historical political boundaries · Natural Earth v5.1.2 country geography · Natural Earth full administrative reference geometry · Published projection for the Soviet Union location-map family · Bukharan PSR in the Soviet Union (1922), published vector locator · Volga German ASSR, 20 July 1930: published locator map · Decolonization of Asia and Africa, 1945–1960 · Natural Earth v5.1.2 country geography · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 — dated political boundaries · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 — dated political boundaries

Source details

Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0 · Dated source selection, component unions, disjoint display masks and source-relative border differences.
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain · Complete selected units and holes; geographic references to named memorial regions, not claims of dated district perimeters.
Hellerick. Mathematical projection parameters; source artwork CC BY-SA 3.0
TRAJAN 117, TarzanASG, Anonimu and Milenioscuro; underlying location-map geography by Hellerick/Natural Earth. CC BY-SA 3.0 · Identified Bukhara, Khorezm and historical Aral SVG paths independently inverse-projected; derivative geometry distributed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fotisgrek. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Native red territorial class extracted and registered to published lake geography; derivative under CC BY-SA 4.0.
US Department of State, Office of the Historian. US government publication
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain · Full source components and holes retained; documented historical unions and repairs.
Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately.
Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately.

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Layer records and reconstruction methods

What changes on the map

Estonia	— → Annexed by the USSR, 1939–45
Latvia	— → Annexed by the USSR, 1939–45
Lithuania	— → Annexed by the USSR, 1939–45
Norway	— → Nazi Germany & its allies
Denmark	— → Nazi Germany & its allies
Netherlands	— → Nazi Germany & its allies
Belgium	— → Nazi Germany & its allies
Luxembourg	— → Nazi Germany & its allies

On the ground

Bessarabia and northern Bukovina, which the USSR annexed from Romania in June 1940

The chapters of this moment

CH 9 — Women and daily life under Stalin

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