List of totalitarian regimes

This is a list of totalitarian dictatorships.

Totalitarian states

Islamist totalitarian states

Country	Ideologies	Government	End goals	Date of establishment	Date of dissolution
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia^[1]	Hanbali Islamism Wahhabism	Unitary Islamic absolute monarchy	Saudi Vision 2030	1932
Republic of the Sudan^[2]	Arab nationalism Islamism Salafism Social conservatism	Federal dominant-party presidential republic (1998-present) Federal one-party republic (1993-1998)		1993

Former Islamist totalitarian states

Country	Ideologies	Government	End goals	Date of establishment	Date of dissolution
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan^[3]	Deobandi fundamentalism Islamism Pashtunwali Religious nationalism Salafi jihadism	Unitary Islamic theocratic elective absolute monarchy	Talibanization Taliban takeover of Afghanistan	1996	2001

Left-wing totalitarian states

Country	Ideologies	Government	End goals	Date of establishment	Date of dissolution
Democratic People's Republic of Korea^[4]^[5]	Chulsin-songbun Juche Kimilsungism–Kimjongilism Kimism Korean nationalism Socialism Songun Ten Principles for the Establishment of a Monolithic Ideological System	Unitary Juche one-party socialist republic	Korean reunification	1998

Former left-wing totalitarian states

Country	Ideologies	Government	End goals	Date of establishment	Date of dissolution
Dominion of Ghana^[6]	African nationalism African socialism Nkrumaism Pan-Africanism	Unitary dominant-party parliamentary constitutional monarchy	Africanization Decolonization of Ghana	1957	1960
Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya^[7]^[8] (1986-2011) Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1977-1986)	African nationalism Arab nationalism Gaddafism Islamic socialism Pan-Africanism Third International Theory	Unitary socialist Jamahiriya under a military dictatorship	Third World Jamahiriya United States of Africa	1977	2011
Iraqi Republic^[9]	Anti-Zionism Arab nationalism Arab socialism Ba'athism Iraqi nationalism Neo-Ba'athism Pan-Arabism Saddamism Secularism	Unitary one-party socialist republic under a military dictatorship	Arab Union Greater Iraq	1979	2003
Republic of Egypt	Anti-imperialism Arab nationalism Arab socialism Nasserism Pan-Africanism Pan-Arabism Republicanism	Unitary one-party socialist republic (1956-1958) Unitary one-party socialist republic under a military dictatorship (1954-1956)	Arab Union United Arab Republic	1954	1958
Republic of Equatorial Guinea	African nationalism African socialism Anti-imperialism Anti-intellectualism Anti-racism Militarism Nguema’s cult of personality Pan-Africanism	Unitary one-party socialist republic	Africanization Decolonization of Equatorial Guinea	1973	1979
File:Flag of Ghana (1964-1966).svg Republic of Ghana	African nationalism African socialism Nkrumaism Pan-Africanism	Unitary one-party socialist republic (1964-1966) Unitary dominant-party presidential republic (1960-1964)		1960	1966
Republic of Guinea	African nationalism African socialism Marxism Pan-Africanism	Unitary one-party socialist republic	Decolonization of Guinea	1960	1977
File:Flag of Myanmar (1974-2010).svg Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma (1974-1988) File:Flag of Burma (1948-1974).svg Union of Burma (1962-1974)	Autarky Buddhist socialism Burmese nationalism Burmese Way to Socialism Isolationism Xenophobia	Unitary one-party socialist republic (1974-1988) Unitary one-party socialist republic under a military dictatorship (1964-1974) Unitary dominant-party socialist presidential republic under a military dictatorship (1962-1964) Unitary socialist presidential republic under a military dictatorship (1962-1962)		1962	1988
Syrian Arab Republic	Anti-Zionism Arab nationalism Arab socialism Assadism Ba'athism Left-wing nationalism Neo-Ba'athism Pan-Arabism Secularism	Unitary one-party socialist republic	Arab Union Greater Syria	1982	2000
United Arab Republic	Anti-imperialism Arab nationalism Arab socialism Nasserism Pan-Africanism Pan-Arabism Republicanism	Unitary one-party socialist republic	Arab Union United Arab States	1958	1970

Nationalist totalitarian states

Country	Ideologies	Government	End goals	Date of establishment	Date of dissolution
File:Flag of Eritrea (1993-1995).svg State of Eritrea^[10]^[11]	Eritrean nationalism Left-wing nationalism Secularism	Unitary one-party republic		1993

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 Cultural conservatism Mobutism	Unitary one-party republic under a military dictatorship (1970-1971) Unitary dominant-party presidential republic under a military dictatorship (1967-1970) Unitary presidential republic under a military dictatorship (1965-1967) Unitary semi-presidential republic under a military dictatorship (1965-1965)	Africanization Authenticité	1965	1971
File:State Flag of Greece (1863-1924 and 1935-1970).svg Kingdom of Greece	Agrarianism Anti-communism Anti-imperialism Anti-parliamentarianism Corporatism Greek nationalism Metaxism Monarchism Para-fascism Protectionism	Unitary constitutional monarchy (1941-1941) Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy (1936-1941)	Third Hellenic Civilization	1936	1941
Portuguese Republic	Christian corporatism Clerical fascism Integralism Lusotropicalism Pluricontinentalism Political Catholicism Para-fascism Portuguese nationalism	Unitary corporatist one-party republic	Civilizing mission	1933	1945
Republic of Azerbaijan	Azerbaijani nationalism Heydarism Secularism Statism	Unitary dominant-party semi-presidential republic		1993	2003
Republic of Guatemala	Anti-communism Bonapartism Corporatism Guatemalan nationalism Para-fascism	Unitary one-party republic		1931	1944
File:Flag of Haiti (1859-1964).svg File:Flag of Haiti (1964-1986).svg Republic of Haiti	Anti-communism Black nationalism Duvalier’s cult of personality Haitian nationalism Haitian Vodou Populism	Unitary one-party republic		1958	1971
File:Flag of Lithuania (1918-1940).svg 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 Right-wing populism Social conservatism	Unitary dominant-party parliamentary republic under a military dictatorship (1978-1981) Unitary dominant-party presidential republic under a military dictatorship (1972-1978)	New Society	1972	1981
Republic of the Union of Myanmar (2010-2011) File:Flag of Myanmar (1974-2010).svg Union of Myanmar (1989-2010) File:Flag of Myanmar (1974-2010).svg Union of Burma (1988-1989)	Burmese nationalism Conservatism Militarism Myanma nationalism Statism Theravāda Buddhism	Unitary presidential republic under a military dictatorship	Roadmap to Discipline-flourishing Democracy	1988	2011
Republic of Zaire	African nationalism Anti-communism Anti-capitalism Cultural conservatism Mobutism Syncretism Zairian nationalism	Unitary one-party republic under a military dictatorship	Africanization Authenticité	1971	1990
File:Flag of the Turkmen SSR.svg File:Flag of Turkmenistan (1992-1997).svg File:Flag of Turkmenistan (1997-2001).svg Turkmenistan	Anti-clericalism National conservatism Niyazov's cult of personality Secularism Social conservatism Statism Turkmen nationalism	Unitary one-party republic	Commonwealth of Independent States Ruhnama	1991	2006
File:Flag of Brazil (1889-1960).svg United States of Brazil	Anti-communism Brazilian nationalism Corporatism Developmentalism Para-fascism Vargas's cult of personality	Federal presidential republic		1937	1945

Former Christian totalitarian states

Country	Ideologies	Government	End goals	Date of establishment	Date of dissolution
File:Seal of the Taiping heavenly kingdom.svg The Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace	Christianity God Worshipping	Unitary Christian theocratic absolute monarchy under a military dictatorship	Overthrow of the Qing dynasty	1851	1864

Former fascist totalitarian states

Country	Ideologies	Government	End goals	Date of establishment	Date of dissolution
Greater German Reich (1943-1945) File:Flag of Germany (1933-1935).svg German Reich (1933-1943)	Fascism German nationalism Hitlerism National Socialism Pan-Germanicism Pan-Germanism	Unitary one-party republic (1933-1945) Unitary dominant-party semi-presidential republic (1933-1933)	Final Solution to the Jewish Question Germanisation Greater Germany Lebensraum New Order of Europe Pax Germanica Thousand Year Reich	1933	1945
Greater Japanese Empire	Japanese fascism Japanese imperialism Japanese militarism Japanese nationalism Pan-Asianism Para-fascism Shōwa statism State Shinto Ultranationalism	Unitary one-party monarchy under a military dictatorship (1942-1945) Unitary dominant-party constitutional monarchy under a military dictatorship (1940-1942)	Axis victory in World War II Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere Greater Japan	1940	1945
Kingdom of Italy	Imperialism Italian Fascism Italian nationalism Mussolinism Pan-Latinism Ultranationalism	Unitary one-party monarchy (1928-1943) Unitary dominant-party parliamentary constitutional monarchy (1925-1928)	Axis victory in World War II Greater Italy New Roman Empire Spazio vitale	1925	1943
Kingdom of Romania	Anti-capitalism Anti-communism Anti-Romanyism Antisemitism Clerical fascism Ethnic nationalism Expansionism Legionarism Romanian nationalism Ultranationalism	Unitary one-party monarchy	Axis victory in World War II Greater Romania	1940	1941
File:Flag of Spain (1945 - 1977).svg Kingdom of Spain (1947-1953) File:Flag of Spain (1938 - 1945).svg File:Flag of Spain (1945 - 1977).svg Spanish State (1939-1947)	Anticommunism Falangism Fascism Francoism Monarchism Movimiento Nacional National Catholicism National syndicalism Para-fascism Spanish nationalism Traditionalism	Unitary one-party monarchy under a military dictatorship (1947-1953) Unitary one-party republic under a military dictatorship (1939-1947)	Greater Spain	1939	1953

Former Marxist-Leninist totalitarian states

Country	Ideologies	Government	End goals	Date of establishment	Date of dissolution
File:Flag of Albania (1944-1946).svg Democratic Government of Albania	Communism Hoxha’s cult of personality Marxism–Leninism Socialism Stalinism	Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist provisional governmental republic	World communism World revolution	1944	1946
Democratic Kampuchea (1976-1979) Kampuchea (1975-1976)	Agrarian socialism Communism Khmer nationalism Marxism–Leninism	Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic	World communism World revolution Year Zero	1975	1979
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	Chulsin-songbun Communism Juche Kimilsungism Kimism Korean nationalism Marxism-Leninism Socialism Socialist patriotism Stalinism	Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic	Korean reunification World communism World revolution	1948	1998
File:Flag of North Vietnam (1945-1955).svg Democratic Republic of Vietnam	Anti-imperialism Anti-revisionism Communism Ho Chi Minh Thought Left-wing nationalism Marxism–Leninism Socialism Socialist patriotism Vietnamese nationalism	Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic	Vietnamese reunification World communism World revolution	1954	1965
Lao People's Democratic Republic	Communism Left-wing nationalism Marxism–Leninism	Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic	World communism World revolution	1975	1991
File:Flag of Ethiopia (1987–1991).svg People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia	Communism Marxism–Leninism Socialism Socialist patriotism	Unitary Marxist-Leninist presidential socialist republic (1991-1991) Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic (1987-1991)	World communism World revolution	1987	1991
File:Flag of Benin (1975-1990).svg People's Republic of Benin	Communism Marxism–Leninism Socialism	Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic	Africanization World communism World revolution	1975	1989
People's Republic of China	Communism Dialectical materialism Mao Zedong Thought Marxism–Leninism Socialism Socialist patriotism	Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic	Chinese unification Great Leap Forward Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution World communism World revolution	1949	1976
File:Flag of Mozambique (1975-1983).svg People's Republic of Mozambique	Communism Marxism–Leninism Socialism	Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic	World communism World revolution	1975	1986
People's Socialist Republic of Albania (1976-1990) File:Flag of Albania (1944-1946).svg People's Republic of Albania (1946-1976)	Anti-revisionism Communism Hoxhaism Hoxha’s cult of personality Marxism–Leninism Socialism Stalinism	Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic	Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance World communism World revolution	1946	1990
File:Flag of Ethiopia (1975–1987).svg Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia	Communism Marxism–Leninism Socialism Socialist patriotism	Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist provisional governmental republic under a military dictatorship (1984-1987) Unitary Marxist-Leninist provisional governmental presidential socialist republic under a military dictatorship (1977-1984)	World communism World revolution	1977	1987
Republic of Cuba	Anti-capitalism Anti-imperialism Castroism Christian left Communism Dialectical materialism Focalism Guevarism Left-wing nationalism Left-wing populism Marxism-Leninism Revolutionary socialism Vanguardism	Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic	World communism World revolution	1959	2006
File:Flag of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1920-1937).svg Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic	Communism Dialectical materialism Marxism-Leninism Socialism Soviet socialist patriotism Stalinism	Federal Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic	Great Turn Socialism in One Country World communism World revolution	1927	1936
Socialist Republic of Romania	Ceaușism Communism Marxism–Leninism National Communism Protochronism Romanian nationalism Socialism Stalinism	Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic	Greater Romania July Theses Systematization World communism World revolution	1971	1989
Somali Democratic Republic	Communism Islamic socialism Marxism-Leninism Scientific socialism Somali nationalism	Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic under a military dictatorship (1980–1991) Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic (1976-1980) Unitary Marxist-Leninist presidential socialist republic under a military dictatorship (1969-1976)	Greater Somalia World communism World revolution	1969	1991
File:Flag of the Soviet Union (1936-1955).svg Union of Soviet Socialist Republics	Communism Dialectical materialism Marxism–Leninism Socialism Soviet socialist patriotism Stalinism	Federal Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic	Socialism in One Country World communism World revolution	1936	1953

Former right-wing totalitarian states

Country	Ideologies	Government	End goals	Date of establishment	Date of dissolution
File:Flag of the Argentine Confederation.svg 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
File:Flag of Rwanda (1962-2001).svg Republic of Rwanda	Anti-communism Social conservatism	Unitary dominant-party presidential republic (1991-1994) Unitary one-party republic (1978-1991) Unitary dominant-party presidential republic under a military dictatorship (1975-1978) Unitary presidential republic under a military dictatorship (1973-1975)		1973	1994

References

↑ https://www.forbes.com/sites/dougbandow/2016/01/05/saudi-arabia-is-washington-frenemy-reckless-riyadh-makes-mideast-more-dangerous-for-america/
↑ http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article17563
↑ https://www.the-american-interest.com/2009/09/01/the-totalitarian-present/
↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15256929
↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/world/north-korea-defectors/?utm_term=.1e05a7cf97ac
↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/highlights/000914_nkrumah.shtml
↑ http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-12532929
↑ www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-gaddafi-was-the-quintessential-20th-century-dictator/2011/10/21/gIQANkTb4L_story.html
↑ https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/15996.htm
↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/06/12/the-brutal-dictatorship-the-world-keeps-ignoring/?utm_term=.da429e90001c
↑ https://www.nation.co.ke/news/africa/1066-2744120-uyqx0jz/index.html

External links

This article "List of totalitarian regimes" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:List of totalitarian regimes. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.

This page exists already on Wikipedia.

[1] ttps://www.forbes.com/sites/dougbandow/2016/01/05/saudi-arabia-is-washington-frenemy-reckless-riyadh-makes-mideast-more-dangerous-for-america/

[2] ttp://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article17563

[3] ttps://www.the-american-interest.com/2009/09/01/the-totalitarian-present/

[4] ttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15256929

[5] ttps://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/world/north-korea-defectors/?utm_term=.1e05a7cf97ac

[6] ttp://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/highlights/000914_nkrumah.shtml

[7] ttp://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-12532929

[8] www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-gaddafi-was-the-quintessential-20th-century-dictator/2011/10/21/gIQANkTb4L_story.html

[9] ttps://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/15996.htm

[10] ttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/06/12/the-brutal-dictatorship-the-world-keeps-ignoring/?utm_term=.da429e90001c

[11] ttps://www.nation.co.ke/news/africa/1066-2744120-uyqx0jz/index.html

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

[10]

[11]