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This is a list of modern totalitarian dictatorships.

Totalitarian states[edit]

Islamist totalitarian states[edit]

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

Former Islamist totalitarian states[edit]

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[edit]

Country Ideologies Government End goals Date of establishment Date of dissolution
North Korea 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[edit]

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
Syria 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[edit]

Country Ideologies Government End goals Date of establishment Date of dissolution
Cuba 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[edit]

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
Cambodia Democratic Kampuchea
(1976-1979)
Cambodia 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
North Korea 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
Vietnam 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
China People's Republic of China Communism
Maoism
Marxism–Leninism
Socialism
Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic Chinese unification
World communism
1949 1976
Mozambique 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)
Russia Soviet Russian Republic
(1918-1918)
Russia 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
Somalia 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[edit]

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

Former nationalist totalitarian states[edit]

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
Azerbaijan 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
Guatemala Republic of Guatemala Anticommunism
Bonapartism
Corporatism
Guatemalan nationalism
Para-fascism
Unitary one-party republic 1931 1944
Guinea 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 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[edit]

Country Ideologies Government End goals Date of establishment Date of dissolution
Nazi Germany Greater German Reich
(1943-1945)
Nazi Germany 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
Italy 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
Romania 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
Portugal 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[edit]

Country Ideologies Government End goals Date of establishment Date of dissolution
Buenos Aires Conservatism
Federalism
Unitary dominant-party presidential republic 1835 1852
Malawi 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

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