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=== Countries with constitutional references to socialism ===
These are countries which reference but do not practice socialism.
* [[File:Flag_of_Algeria.png|20px]] [[People's Democratic Republic of Algeria]]
* {{Flagicon|Flag of Bangladesh.svg.png}} [[People's Republic of Bangladesh]]
* {{Flagicon|Guyana flag.png}} [[Co-operative Republic of Guyana|Co‑operative Republic of Guyana]]
* [[File:Flag_of_Nicaragua.png|20px]] [[Republic of Nicaragua]]
* [[File:Flag_of_sri_lanka.png|20px]] [[Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka]]
* [[File:Flag_of_Tanzania.svg|20px]] [[United Republic of Tanzania]]
* [[Portuguese Republic]]


== See also ==
== See also ==

Revision as of 23:23, 9 September 2025

A socialist state, socialist republic, or socialist country, sometimes referred to as a workers' state or workers' republic, is a sovereign state which is dictated by the proletariat and undergoing the construction of socialism. The term communist state is often used synonymously in the West specifically when referring to one-party socialist states governed by Marxist–Leninist communist parties, despite these countries being officially socialist states in the process of building socialism. In accordance with the Communist theory on stages of revolution, these countries have not described themselves as communist nor as having implemented a communist society, but are in the process of doing so.

Overview

Socialist states commonly have centrally planned economies, democratic centralism, and maintain a policy of secularism or state atheism. Marxist states operate under a dictatorship of the proletariat, which is not the case for all states that constitutionally self-identify as "socialist".

Current socialist states

Socialist states

Former socialist states

Marxist–Leninist states

Name Began Ended
Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic 1918 1918
Hungarian Soviet Republic 1919 1919
Bavarian Soviet Republic 1919 1919
Far Eastern Republic 1920 1922
Tuvan People's Republic 1921 1944
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1922 1991
Mongolian People's Republic 1924 1990
Chinese Soviet Republic 1931 1937
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1945 1992
People's Republic of Bulgaria 1946 1990
People's Socialist Republic of Albania 1946 1992
Polish People's Republic 1947 1989
Socialist Republic of Romania 1947 1989
German Democratic Republic 1949 1990
Hungarian People's Republic 1949 1989
Democratic Republic of Vietnam 1954 1975
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic 1948 1990
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen 1967 1990
Somali Democratic Republic 1969 1991
People's Republic of the Congo 1969 1992
Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia 1974 1987
People's Republic of Mozambique 1975 1990
People's Republic of Benin 1975 1992
People's Republic of Angola 1975 1992
Democratic Republic of Madagascar 1975 1992
Democratic Republic of Afghanistan 1978 1987
People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada 1979 1983
People's Republic of Kampuchea 1979 1989
People's Republic of Burkina Faso 1984 1987
People's Republic of Ghana 1957 1966
Union of African States 1958 1961
Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic 1940 1956

Countries with constitutional references to socialism

These are countries which reference but do not practice socialism.

See also

References