Socialist state

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. 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." The same could be said of the 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.

Name	Established	Ruling party	Socialism dismantled
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics	30 December 1922	AUCP(b)	1956
Socialist Federative Republic of Councils in Hungary	21 March 1919	HCP	1919
Slovak Republic of Councils	16 June 1919	–	1919
Mongolian People's Republic	26 November 1924	MPRP	1956
Bavarian Council Republic	6 April 1919	–	1919
German Democratic Republic	7 October 1949	SUP	1958–1963
Socialist Republic of Romania	30 December 1947	RCP	1956–1965
People's Republic of Bulgaria	15 September 1946	BCP	1956
Polish People's Republic	19 February 1947	PUWP	1956
Hungarian People's Republic	20 August 1949	HWPP	1956–1966
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic	25 February 1948	CPC	1956
People's Socialist Republic of Albania	10 January 1946	PLA	1990
Paris Commune	18 March 1871	–	1871
Socialist Republic of Vietnam	2 September 1945	CPV	1986
Lao People's Democratic Republic	2 December 1975	LPRP	1986