Defunct Communist States
Hunter Watson
Defunct Communist states and their ruling parties (where applicable):
* 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.
* Slovak Soviet Republic (1918-1919)
* Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919) - Hungarian Communist Party
* Munich Soviet Republic (1919) - Independent Socialist Party
* 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
* 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
Republic1963-1992)- 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 Worker's 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.
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