Compare the ways that European nations, other than Russia, moved away from communist rule.

European nations, especially on the Eastern side of Europe, moved away from communist rule.

Explanation:

After the second World, Eastern European countries had been devastated. The communists assured the people of Eastern Europe a new era of equity and economic stability. With the help of Stalin, most of the European communist parties in the East made alliances with non-communists until they gained control of the government. Some of the countries that came under the communist rule were Hungary, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania, and Czechoslovakia.

The communist rule did not survive in the satellite states as protests began to spring up in several countries. The Revolutions of 1989 formed a revolutionary wave in the late 1980s and early 1990s that ended the communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe.

The Prague Spring was a mass protest in Czechoslovakia when people began to protest for more freedoms and reforms in the country, and in 1989 the Velvet Revolution led to the end of communism.

The Solidarity organization in Poland historically performs a crucial role in concluding communist rule in Poland.