Bloc
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Bloc may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
- Bloc Festival, an electronic music festival in the UK
- Bloc Party, a modern music group
Government and politics
- Black bloc, a tactic used at protests, often by anarchist-aligned groups
- Bloc Québécois, a political party in Canada
- Bloc voting (disambiguation), several types of voting systems
- Eastern Bloc (or Communist Block or Socialist Bloc or Soviet Block), a former group of Communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, and Southeast Asia under the hegemony of the Soviet Union (USSR) during the Cold War (1947–1991), in opposition to the non-Communist Western Bloc
- Political bloc, a coalition of political parties
- Trade bloc, a type of intergovernmental agreement
- Valencian Nationalist Bloc, a political party in Land of Valencia
- Voting bloc, a group of voters voting together
- Western Bloc, during the Cold War refers to capitalist countries under the hegemony of the United States and NATO against the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact
Other uses
- Bloc Hotels a small UK chain of hotels
- The Red And Black Bloc, the main supporters group of Western Sydney Wanderers FC
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Bloc
- All pages with titles containing Bloc
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