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This is a list of modern totalitarian dictatorships.

Totalitarian states

Islamist totalitarian states

Country	Ideologies	Government	End goals	Date of establishment	Date of dissolution
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	Islamism Wahhabism	Unitary Islamic theocratic absolute monarchy		1932	Present
Republic of the Sudan	Arab nationalism Islamism Salafism Social conservatism	Federal dominant-party presidential republic		1993	Present

Former Islamist totalitarian states

Country	Ideologies	Government	End goals	Date of establishment	Date of dissolution
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan	Deobandi fundamentalism Islamism Islamofascism Pashtunwali Religious nationalism	Unitary Islamic theocratic absolute monarchy	Afghan reunification	1996	2001

Left-wing totalitarian states

Country	Ideologies	Government	End goals	Date of establishment	Date of dissolution
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	Anti-imperialism Juche Kimism Socialism Songun	Unitary one-party socialist republic	Korean reunification	1998	Present

Former left-wing totalitarian states

Country	Ideologies	Government	End goals	Date of establishment	Date of dissolution
Iraqi Republic	Arab nationalism Arab socialism Ba'athism Iraqi nationalism Neo-Ba'athism Saddamism	Unitary one-party socialist republic under military dictatorship	Greater Iraq Pan-Arabism	1979	2003
Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma (1974-1988) Union of Burma (1962-1974)	Buddhist socialism Burmese nationalism Burmese Way to Socialism	Unitary one-party socialist republic (1974-1988) Unitary one-party socialist republic under military dictatorship (1964-1974) Unitary dominant-party socialist presidential republic under military dictatorship (1962-1964) Unitary socialist presidential republic under military dictatorship (1962-1962)		1962	1988
Syrian Arab Republic	Anti-imperialism Anti-Zionism Arab nationalism Arab socialism Assadism Ba'athism Left-wing nationalism Neo-Ba'athism Secularism	Unitary one-party socialist republic	Greater Syria Pan-Arabism	1982	2000

Marxist-Leninist totalitarian states

Country	Ideologies	Government	End goals	Date of establishment	Date of dissolution
Republic of Cuba	Anti-capitalism Castroism Communism Guevarism Left-wing populism Marxism-Leninism Socialism of the 21st century	Unitary one-party socialist republic	World communism	1959	Present

Former Marxist-Leninist totalitarian states

Country	Ideologies	Government	End goals	Date of establishment	Date of dissolution
Democratic Government of Albania	Communism Hoxhaism Marxism–Leninism Socialism Stalinism	Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist provisional governmental republic	World communism	1944	1946
Democratic Kampuchea (1976-1979) Kampuchea (1975-1976)	Agrarian socialism Communism Khmer nationalism Maoism Marxism–Leninism Socialism	Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic	Cambodian genocide World communism Year Zero	1975	1979
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	Anti-imperialism Communism Juche Kimism Marxism-Leninism Socialism Songun Stalinism	Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic	Korean reunification World communism	1948	1998
Democratic Republic of Vietnam	Communism Ho Chi Minh Thought Left-wing nationalism Marxism–Leninism Socialism Vietnamese nationalism	Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic (1945-1946); (1951-1965) Unitary Marxist-Leninist dominant-party socialist presidential republic (1946-1951)	Vietnamese reunification World communism	1945	1965
People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia	Communism Marxism–Leninism Socialism	Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic	World communism	1987	1991
People's Republic of China	Communism Maoism Marxism–Leninism Socialism	Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic	Chinese unification World communism	1949	1976
People's Republic of Mozambique	Communism Marxism–Leninism Socialism	Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic	World communism	1975	1986
People's Socialist Republic of Albania (1976-1990) People's Republic of Albania (1946-1976)	Communism Hoxhaism Maoism Marxism–Leninism Socialism Stalinism	Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic	Warsaw Pact World communism	1946	1990
Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia	Communism Marxism–Leninism Socialism	Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist provisional governmental republic under military dictatorship (1984-1987) Unitary Marxist-Leninist socialist provisional governmental presidential republic under military dictatorship (1977-1984)	World communism	1977	1987
Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (1918-1936) Soviet Russian Republic (1918-1918) Russian Republic (1917-1918)	Bolshevism Communism Leninism Marxism-Leninism Socialism Soviet democracy Stalinism	Unitary Leninist one-party socialist republic	Soviet Union World communism	1917	1936
Socialist Republic of Romania	Ceaușescu's cult of personality Communism Marxism–Leninism National Communism Protochronism Socialism Stalinism	Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic	Greater Romania World communism	1971	1989
Somali Democratic Republic	Communism Islamic socialism Marxism-Leninism Scientific socialism Somali nationalism	Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic under military dictatorship (1980–1991) Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic (1976-1980) Unitary Marxist-Leninist socialist presidential republic under military dictatorship (1969-1976)	Greater Somalia World communism	1969	1991
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics	Communism Marxism–Leninism Socialism Stalinism	Federal Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic (1938-1953) Federal Leninist one-party socialist republic (1936-1938)	World communism	1936	1953

Nationalist totalitarian states

Country	Ideologies	Government	End goals	Date of establishment	Date of dissolution
State of Eritrea	Eritrean nationalism Left-wing nationalism Secularism	Unitary one-party republic		1993	Present

Former nationalist totalitarian states

Country	Ideologies	Government	End goals	Date of establishment	Date of dissolution
Democratic Republic of the Congo	African nationalism Anti-communism Anti-capitalism Congolese nationalism Mobutism	Unitary one-party republic under military dictatorship (1970-1971) Unitary dominant-party presidential republic under military dictatorship (1967-1970) Unitary presidential republic under military dictatorship (1965-1967) Unitary semi-presidential republic under military dictatorship (1965-1965)	Authenticité	1965	1971
Kingdom of Greece	Agrarianism Anti-communism Anti-imperialism Anti-parliamentarianism Corporatism Greek nationalism Metaxism Monarchism Para-fascism Protectionism	Unitary constitutional monarchy (1941-1941) Unitary constitutional monarchy (1936-1941)	Third Hellenic Civilization	1936	1941
Republic of Azerbaijan	Azerbaijani nationalism Heydarism Secularism Statism	Unitary dominant-party system semi-presidential republic		1993	2003
Republic of Equatorial Guinea	African nationalism Anti-intellectualism Nguema’s cult of personality	Unitary one-party republic	Africanization Decolonization of Equatorial Guinea	1973	1979
Republic of Guatemala	Anticommunism Bonapartism Corporatism Guatemalan nationalism Para-fascism	Unitary one-party republic		1931	1944
Republic of Guinea	African nationalism African socialism Marxism	Unitary one-party republic	Decolonization of Guinea Pan-Africanism	1960	1977
Republic of Lithuania	Lithuanian nationalism National conservatism Social conservatism	Unitary one-party republic		1929	1940
Republic of the Philippines	Conservatism Filipino nationalism Marcos's cult of personality National conservatism Populism	Unitary dominant-party parliamentary republic under military dictatorship (1978-1981) Unitary dominant-party presidential republic under military dictatorship (1972-1978)	New Society	1972	1981
Republic of Zaire	African nationalism Anti-communism Anti-capitalism Mobutism Zairian nationalism	Unitary one-party republic under military dictatorship	Authenticité	1971	1990
Turkmenistan	Anti-clericalism National conservatism Niyazov's cult of personality Secularism Social conservatism Statism Turkmen nationalism	Unitary one-party republic		1991	2006
United States of Brazil	Anticommunism Brazilian nationalism Corporatism Developmentalism Para-fascism Vargas's cult of personality	Federal presidential republic		1937	1945

Former fascist totalitarian states

Country	Ideologies	Government	End goals	Date of establishment	Date of dissolution
Greater German Reich (1943-1945) German Reich (1933-1943)	Fascism Hitlerism National Socialism	Unitary one-party republic (1933-1945) Unitary dominant-party semi-presidential republic (1933-1933)	Final Solution Greater Germany Lebensraum New Order of Europe Pan-Germanicism Pan-Germanism Pax Germanica Thousand Year Reich	1933	1945
Greater Japanese Empire	Japanese fascism Japanese imperialism Japanese militarism Japanese nationalism Para-fascism Shōwa statism State Shinto Ultranationalism	Unitary one-party monarchy under military dictatorship (1942-1945) Unitary dominant-party constitutional monarchy under military dictatorship (1940-1942)	Axis victory in World War II Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere Greater Japan Pan-Asianism	1940	1945
Kingdom of Italy	Imperialism Italian Fascism Mussolinism Ultranationalism	Unitary one-party monarchy (1928-1943) Unitary dominant party parliamentary constitutional monarchy (1925-1928)	Axis victory in World War II Greater Italy Greater Somalia New Roman Empire Pan-Latinism	1925	1943
Kingdom of Romana	Anti-capitalism Anti-communism Anti-Romanyism Antisemitism Clerical fascism Ethnic nationalism Expansionism Legionarism Romanian ultranationalism	Unitary one-party monarchy	Axis victory in World War II Greater Romania	1940	1941
Kingdom of Spain (1947-1953) Spanish State (1939-1947)	Anticommunism Falangism Fascism Francoism Monarchism Movimiento Nacional National Catholicism National syndicalism Traditionalism	Unitary one-party republic under military dictatorship	Greater Spain	1939	1953
Portuguese Republic	Christian corporatism Clerical fascism Integralism Lusotropicalism Pluricontinentalism Political Catholicism Para-fascism Portuguese nationalism Salazarism	Unitary corporatist one-party republic	Civilizing mission	1933	1945

Former right-wing totalitarian states

Country	Ideologies	Government	End goals	Date of establishment	Date of dissolution
Buenos Aires	Conservatism Federalism	Unitary dominant-party presidential republic		1835	1852
Republic of Malawi	Anti-communism Conservatism	Unitary one-party republic	Decolonization of Malawi	1966	1993
Republic of Rwanda	Anti-communism Social conservatism	Unitary dominant-party semi-presidential republic (1991-1994) Unitary one-party republic (1978-1991) Unitary dominant-party presidential republic under military dictatorship (1975-1978) Unitary presidential republic military dictatorship (1973-1975)		1973	1994

See also

• Totalitarianism