Communist state

:This article is about one-party states governed by Communist parties. For information regarding communism as a form of society, as an ideology advocating that form of society, or as a popular movement, see the main Communism article.

Defunct Communist states

Defunct Communist states and their ruling parties (where applicable):

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• Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (1918–1922) founded as a result of the October Revolution by the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic and Labour Party. Incorporated into:
• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991) — Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• See also Republics of the Soviet Union for various Soviet republics, some of them short-lived, which were eventually included into the USSR.
• Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic (Jan 1918–Apr 1918) in the south of Finland only — Social Democratic Party of Finland.
• Alsace Soviet Republic (November 1918)
• Slovak Soviet Republic (1918–1919)
• Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919) — Hungarian Communist Party
• Bavarian Soviet Republic also known as the Munich Soviet Republic (1919) — Independent Socialist Party
• Galician Soviet Socialist Republic (July 9 1920 - September 21 1920), created in Soviet occupied territory during the Polish-Soviet War.
• Persian Soviet Socialist Republic also known as the Soviet Republic of Gilan (June 1920–September 1921)
• Mongolian People's Republic (1924–1992) — Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party
• Hunan Soviet (ca 1927) — Chinese Communist Party
• Chinese Soviet Republic also known as the "Jiangxi Soviet" (1931–1934) — led by Mao Zedong's faction of the Chinese Communist Party
• Finnish Democratic Republic also known as the Terijoki Government (1939–1940), established in parts of Finland occupied by the Soviet Union during the Winter War — Communist Party of Finland
• Poland (1944–1989; name changed to "People's Republic of Poland" in 1952) — Polish United Workers Party
• Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Democratic Federal 1945–1946; Federal People's Republic 1946–1963;Socialist Federal Republic 1963–1992) — League of Communists of Yugoslavia
• People's Socialist Republic of Albania (People's Republic 1946–1976; People's Socialist Republic 1976–1991) — Albanian Party of Labour
• People's Republic of Bulgaria (1946–1990) — Communist Party of Bulgaria
• Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) (1946–1976) — Communist Party of Vietnam (incorporated into Socialist Republic of Vietnam)
• Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia (People's Republic 1948–1960; Socialist Republic 1960–1990) — Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
• German Democratic Republic (1949–1990) — Socialist Unity Party of Germany
• Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1989) — Hungarian Workers Party (until 1956), Hungarian Socialist Workers Party
• Socialist Republic of Romania (People's Republic 1947–1965; Socialist Republic 1965–1989) — Romanian Communist Party (Romanian Workers' Party prior to 1965)
• People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (1969–1990) — Yemeni Socialist Party
• People's Republic of Congo (1970–1992; Communist rule 1969–1992) — Parti Congolais du Travail (Congolese Labour Party), only legal party 1979–1991
• Somali Democratic Republic (1969–1991; officially declared socialist in 1970) — Supreme Revolutionary Council or SRC from 1969–1976; Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party from 1976–1991
• People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Communist rule 1974–1991, People's Democratic Republic formally established in 1987) — Workers' Party of Ethiopia also called Ethiopian Workers' Party
• People's Republic of Benin (1975–1990; Marxism abandoned 1989, one party rule until 1990) — Parti du Revolutionare Popular du Benin (Popular Revolutionary Party of Benin) or PRPB
• Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam (1975–1976) — Communist Party of Vietnam (incorporated into Socialist Republic of Vietnam)
• Democratic Kampuchea (1975–1979) — Khmer Rouge
• People's Republic of Angola (1975–1992) — Movimento Popular da Libertação de Angola -Partido de Trabalho (Popular Liberation Movement of Angola-Labour Party) popularly known as the MPLA
• People's Republic of Mozambique (1975–1990) — Frente da Libertação de Moçambique (Liberation Front of Mozambique) popularly known as FRELIMO
• Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (1978–1992) — People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
• People's Republic of Kampuchea (1979–1989) — (Vietnamese backing)
• Grenada, People's Revolutionary Government of (1979–1983) — New Jewel Movement, where "Jewel" stands for Joint Endeavour for Welfare, Education, and Liberation

Sometimes the Paris Commune (1870–1871) is also classified as a Communist state, since Karl Marx described it as a living example of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Related Topics:
Paris Commune - Karl Marx - Dictatorship of the proletariat

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