File:Sesel map of socialist states.PNG

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English: Based on :Image:BlankMap-World-1985.png. I regard this current version as more accurate than the first and second; however, the map is always open to interpretation.

The following states are highlighted:

Marxist-Leninist

  • Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (Nur Mohammad Taraki, Hafizullah Amin, Babrak Karmal, Mohammad Najibullah)
    • People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
  • Socialist People's Republic of Albania (Enver Hoxha, Ramiz Alia)
    • Communist Party of Albania/Albanian Party of Labour
  • People's Republic of Angola (Agostinho Neto, José Eduardo dos Santos)
    • Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola/Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola/Labour Party
  • People's Republic of Benin (Mathieu Kérékou)
    • People's Revolutionary Party of Benin
  • People's Republic of Bulgaria (Georgi Dimitrov, Vulko Chervenkov, Todor Zhivkov, Petur Mladenov)
    • Bulgarian Workers' Party/Bulgarian Communist Party
  • People's Republic of China (Mao Zedong, Hua Guofeng, Hu Yaobang, Zhao Ziyang, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao)
    • Communist Party of China
  • People's Republic of the Congo (Marien Ngouabi, Joachim Yhombi-Opango, Denis Sassou-Nguesso)
    • National Movement of the Revolution/Congolese Party of Labour
  • Republic of Cuba (Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro)
    • July 26 Movement/Integrated Revolutionary Organizations/United Party of the Socialist Revolution of Cuba/Communist Party of Cuba
  • Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (Klement Gottwald, Antonín Novotný, Alexander Dubček, Gustáv Husák, Miloš Jakeš, Karel Urbánek, Ladislav Adamec)
    • Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
  • People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Mengistu Haile Mariam)
    • Workers' Party of Ethiopia
  • German Democratic Republic (Walter Ulbricht, Erich Honecker, Egon Krenz)
    • Socialist Unity Party of Germany
  • Hungarian People's Republic (Mátyás Rákosi, Ernő Gerő, János Kádár, Károly Grósz)
    • Hungarian Workers' Party/Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
  • People's Republic of Kampuchea (Pen Sovan, Heng Samrin)
    • People's Revolutionary Party of Kampuchea
  • Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il)
    • Workers' Party of Korea
  • Lao People's Democratic Republic (Kaysone Phomvihane, Khamtai Siphandon, Choummaly Sayasone)
    • Lao People's Revolutionary Party
  • Mongolian People's Republic (Tseren-Ochiryn Dambadorj, Yumjaagiyn Tsedenbal, Dashiyn Damba, Jambyn Batmönkh, Gombojavyn Ochirbat)
    • Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party
  • People's Republic of Mozambique (Samora Machel, Joaquim Chissano)
    • Mozambican Liberation Front
  • Polish People's Republic (Bolesław Bierut, Edward Ochab, Władysław Gomułka, Edward Gierek, Stanisław Kania, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Mieczysław Rakowski)
    • Polish Workers' Party/Polish United Workers' Party
  • Socialist Republic of Romania (Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Gheorghe Apostol, Nicolae Ceauşescu)
    • Romanian Communist Party/Romanian Workers' Party
  • Somali Democratic Republic (Maxamed Siyaad Barre)
    • Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party
  • Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Joseph Stalin, Georgy Malenkov, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yury Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, Mikhail Gorbachev)
    • Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party/Russian Communist Party of Bolsheviks/All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks/Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Hồ Chí Minh, Lê Duẩn, Trường Chinh, Nguyễn Văn Linh, Đỗ Mười, Lê Khả Phiêu, Nông Đức Mạnh)
    • Indochinese Communist Party/Vietnam Workers' Party/Communist Party of Vietnam
  • People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (Salem Ali Rubayyi, Abdul Fattah Ismail, Ali Nasir Muhammad, Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas)
    • National Front/Yemeni Socialist Party
  • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Josip Broz Tito, Stevan Doronjski, Lazar Mojsov, Dušan Dragosavac, Mitja Ribičič, Dragoslav Marković, Ali Shukri, Vidoje Žarković, Milanko Renovica, Boško Krunić, Stipe Šuvar, Milan Pančevski)
    • Communist Party of Yugoslavia/League of Communists of Yugoslavia

One-party (non-Marxist-Leninist)

  • People's Democratic Republic of Algeria (Ahmed Ben Bella, Houari Boumedienne, Chadli Bendjedid)
    • National Liberation Front
  • People's Republic of Bangladesh (Mujibur Rahman)
    • Awami League/Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League
  • Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma (Ne Win, San Yu)
    • Burma Socialist Program Party
  • Republic of Cape Verde (Aristides Pereira)
    • African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde/African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde
  • Republic of Ghana (Kwame Nkrumah)
    • Convention People's Party
  • Grenada (Maurice Bishop)
    • New Jewel Movement
  • People's Revolutionary Republic of Guinea (Ahmed Sékou Touré)
    • Democratic Party of Guinea-African Democratic Rally
  • Republic of Guinea-Bissau (Luís Cabral, João Bernardo Vieira)
    • African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde
  • Republic of Iraq (Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr, Saddam Hussein)
    • Arab Socialist Baath Party
  • Democratic Republic of Madagascar (Didier Ratsiraka)
    • National Front for the Defense of the Revolution
  • Republic of Mali (Modibo Keita)
    • Sudanese Union-African Democratic Rally
  • Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (El Wali Mustafa Sayed, Mohamed Abdelaziz)
    • Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Río de Oro
  • Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe (Manuel Pinto da Costa)
    • Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe
  • Republic of Senegal (Léopold Sédar Senghor)
    • Senegalese Progressive Union/Socialist Party of Senegal
  • Republic of Seychelles (France-Albert René)
    • Seychelles People's United Party/Seychelles People's Progressive Front
  • Democratic Republic of Sudan (Gaafar Nimeiry)
    • Sudanese Socialist Union
  • Syrian Arab Republic (Salah al-Din Bitar, Salah al-Jadid, Hafez al-Assad, Bashar al-Assad)
    • Arab Socialist Baath Party
  • United Republic of Tanzania (Julius Nyerere, Ali Hassan Mwinyi)
    • Tanganyika African National Union/Afro-Shirazi Party/Chama Cha Mapinduzi
  • Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (Francisco Xavier do Amaral, Nicolau dos Reis Lobato)
    • Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor
  • Tunisian Republic (Habib Bourguiba)
    • Neo-Destour Party/Destourian Socialist Party
  • Republic of Uganda (Milton Obote)
    • Uganda People's Congress
  • United Arab Republic (Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar as-Sadat)
    • Arab Socialist Union

Directed by military without a political party

  • Republic of Bolivia (David Toro, Germán Busch)
  • Burkina Faso (Thomas Sankara, Blaise Compaoré)
  • Socialist Republic of Chile (Marmaduke Grove, Carlos Dávila Espinoza)
  • Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (Muammar al-Gaddafi)
  • Republic of Suriname (Dési Bouterse)

Similar in many respects to a socialist state

  • Cooperative Republic of Guyana (Forbes Burnham, Desmond Hoyte)
    • People's National Congress
  • Republic of Indonesia (Sukarno)
    • National Party of Indonesia and Communist Party of Indonesia
  • Republic of Nicaragua (Daniel Ortega)
    • Sandinista National Liberation Front
  • Republic of Sierra Leone (Siaka Stevens, Joseph Saidu Momoh)
    • All People's Congress
  • Republic of Zambia (Kenneth Kaunda)
    • United National Independence Party
  • Republic of Zimbabwe (Robert Mugabe)
    • Zimbabwe African National Union/Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front
Date 6 July 2006 (original upload date)
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Author The original uploader was Sesel at English Wikipedia.

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  • 2007-03-21 19:48 Sesel 1357×628× (47409 bytes) update of previous version
  • 2006-10-04 01:49 Sesel 1357×628× (47751 bytes)
  • 2006-07-06 00:02 Sesel 1357×628× (47822 bytes) Based on [[:Image:BlankMap-World-1985.png]].

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List of Socialist and Communist Countries during the Cold War in 1985

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