The Spread of Communism is an animated Leaflet map showing the ascent in addition to autumn of global communism from 1917 to 2017. Starting amongst the Russian Revolution inwards 1917 communist countries are colored carmine on the map during the twelvemonth that they brutal to communism. The carmine dry soil shapefiles are so removed from the map yesteryear the twelvemonth when communism was overturned.
The information for the dates when countries became communist in addition to when communism was overturned comes from Wikipedia. The dry soil shapefiles for the map come upwards from Geo-Maps. Geo-Maps is a collection of GeoJSON files from OpenStreetMap. The map includes political dry soil borders, coastlines, seas in addition to rivers.
One work amongst using i laid upwards of dry soil shapefiles is that the map hence doesn't delineate of piece of work concern human relationship for shifting dry soil borders over time. The catamenia of history covered yesteryear the Spread of Communism saw political borders modify dramatically around the world. For event on this map the whole of Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany is shown equally beingness communist from 1950 to 1990 - presumably because Geo-Maps doesn't convey a GeoJSON file for East Germany.You tin run across 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 in addition to 2014 allows you lot to compare the 2 maps in addition to thought how a some dry soil borders convey changed dramatically over the final i hundred years. Swipe to the left to give away the 1914 map in addition to swipe to the correct to thought the 2014 map.
