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[[File:Map of current and former Marxist–Leninist states.png|thumb|320x320px|Map of countries which were nominal socialist states.]]
A '''socialist state,''' not the be confused with a state that had achieved [[socialism]] as an socioeconomic system, here refers to states that had achieved the [[Dictatorship of the Proletariat|dictatorship of the proletariat]]. [[Vladimir Lenin]] wrote that, "The term Soviet Socialist Republic implies the determination of the Soviet power to achieve the transition to socialism, and not that the existing economic system is recognized as a socialist order." <ref>Vladimir Lenin (April 1921). [[Library:The Tax in Kind|''The Tax in Kind'']].</ref> The same could be said of the [[People's democracy|people's democracies]], which did not yet exist in the time of Lenin.

== List of socialist states ==
The following are countries which achieved both socialism and the dictatorship of the proletariat. Countries which never achieved the socialist [[mode of production]] are not included.  
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Name
!Established
!Ruling party
!Socialism dismantled
|-
|{{flagcountry|Soviet Union}}
|30 December 1922
|[[All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)]]
|[[De-Stalinization|1956]]
|-
|{{flagcountry|Hungarian Soviet Republic}}
|21 March 1919
|[[Hungarian Communist Party]]
|1919
|-
|{{flagcountry|Slovak Soviet Republic}}
|16 June 1919
|–
|1919
|-
|{{flagcountry|Mongolian People's Republic}}
|26 November 1924
|[[Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party]]
|1956
|-
|{{flagcountry|Bavarian Soviet Republic}}
|6 April 1919
|–
|1919
|-
|{{flagcountry|German Democratic Republic}}
|7 October 1949
|[[Socialist Unity Party of Germany]]
|1958–1963
|-
|{{flagcountry|Socialist Republic of Romania}}
|30 December 1947
|[[Romanian Communist Party]]
|1956–1965
|-
|{{flagcountry|People's Republic of Bulgaria}}
|15 September 1946
|[[Bulgarian Communist Party]]
|1956
|-
|{{flagcountry|Polish People's Republic}}
|19 February 1947
|[[Polish United Workers' Party]]
|1956
|-
|{{flagcountry|Hungarian People's Republic}}
|20 August 1949
|[[Hungarian Working People's Party]]
|1956–1966
|-
|{{flagcountry|Czechoslovak Socialist Republic}}
|25 February 1948
|[[Communist Party of Czechoslovakia]]
|1956
|-
|{{flagcountry|People's Socialist Republic of Albania}}
|10 January 1946
|[[Party of Labor of Albania]]
|1990
|-
|{{flagcountry|Paris Commune}}
|18 March 1871
|–
|1871
|-
|{{flagcountry|Vietnam}}
|2 September 1945
|[[Communist Party of Vietnam]]
|[[Đổi Mới|1986]]
|-
|{{flagcountry|Laos}}
|2 December 1975
|[[Lao People's Revolutionary Party]]
|1986
|}

== References ==
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