List of Socialist Countries - Ephemeral

Ephemeral

These are short-lived political entities that emerged during wars or revolutions (mostly in the aftermath of World War I) and declared themselves to be socialist under some interpretation of the term, but did not survive long enough to create a stable government or achieve international recognition.

  • Alsace Soviet Republic (November 9–22, 1918)
  • Asturian Socialist Republic (October 5–18, 1934)
  • Azerbaijan People's Government (November 1945 – December 1946)
  • Bavarian Soviet Republic (April 6 – May 3, 1919)
  • Saxony Soviet (November, 1918 - March 14, 1919)
  • Bessarabian Soviet Socialist Republic (May – September 1919)
  • Socialist Republic of Chile (4 June - 2 October 1932)
  • Provisional Government of the Republic of China (January 1, 1912 - March 11, 1912)
  • Chinese Soviet Republic (November 7, 1931 - October 10, 1934)
  • People's Revolutionary Government of the Republic of China (November 22, 1933 - January 13, 1934)
  • Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic (February 12 – May 1918)
  • Commune of the Working People of Estonia (November 29, 1918 – June 5, 1919)
  • Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic (January 28 – April 29, 1918)
  • Finnish Democratic Republic (December 1939 - March 1940)
  • Galician Soviet Socialist Republic (July 8 – September 21, 1920)
  • National Revolutionary Council of Gambia (July 30, 1981 - August 5, 1981)
  • German Socialist Republic (November 9, 1918 – August 11, 1919)
  • Hunan Soviet (1927)
  • Hungarian Soviet Republic (March 21 – August 6, 1919)
  • People's Republic of Korea (September 6, 1945 - February, 1946)
  • Provisional People's Committee for North Korea (February, 1946 - September 9, 1948)
  • Limerick Soviet (April 15–27, 1919)
  • Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic (December 17, 1918 - January 13, 1920)
  • Lithuanian-Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (February 27 – August 25, 1919)
  • Republic of Mahabad (January 22 – December 15, 1946)
  • Mughan Soviet Republic (March – June 1919)
  • Soviet Republic of Naissaar (December 1917 – February 26, 1918)
  • Odessa Soviet Republic (January 31 – March 13, 1918)
  • Paris Commune (March 18 – May 28, 1871, first socialist republic in history)
  • Persian Socialist Soviet Republic (June 9, 1920 – September 1921)
  • Political Committee of National Liberation (March 10, 1944 - August 28 1949)
  • Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam (June 8, 1969 – June 2, 1976)
  • Slovak Soviet Republic (June 16 – July 7, 1919)
  • Democratic Republic of Yemen (May 21 – July 7, 1994)

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