List of totalitarian regimes

This is a list of modern totalitarian dictatorships.

Totalitarian states

Left-wing totalitarian states

Country	Ideologies	Government	End goals	Date of establishment	Date of dissolution
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	Juche Kimism Socialism	Unitary one-party people's republican dictatorship	Korean reunification	1948	Present
State of Eritrea	Eritrean nationalism Secularism Left-wing nationalism	Unitary one-party presidential republican dictatorship		1993	Present

Former left-wing totalitarian states

Country	Ideologies	Government	End goals	Date of establishment	Date of dissolution
Iraqi Republic	Arab nationalism Ba'athism Neo-Ba'athism Saddamism	Unitary one-party republican dictatorship (Mid-1970s-2003)	Greater Iraq Pan-Arabism	Mid-1970s	2003

Marxist-Leninist totalitarian states

Former Marxist-Leninist totalitarian states

Country	Ideologies	Government	End goals	Date of establishment	Date of dissolution
Democratic Kampuchea (1976-1979) Kampuchea (1975-1975)	Agrarian socialism Communism Khmer nationalism Marxism–Leninism Socialism	Unitary one-party republican dictatorship	World communism	1975	1979
Democratic Government of Albania	Communism Marxism–Leninism Socialism Stalinism	Unitary one-party provisional governmental dictatorship	World communism	1944	1946
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	Communism Juche Kimism Marxism–Leninism Socialism	Unitary one-party people's republican dictatorship	Korean reunification World communism	1947	1989
People's Socialist Republic of Albania (1976-1991) People's Republic of Albania (1946-1976)	Communism Hoxhaism Maoism Marxism–Leninism Socialism Stalinism	Unitary one-party people's republican dictatorship	World communism	1946	1991
People's Republic of China	Communism Mao Zedong Thought / Maoism Marxism–Leninism Socialism	Unitary one-party people's republican dictatorship	Chinese unification World communism	1949	1976
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics	Communism Marxism–Leninism Socialism Stalinism	Federal one-party republican dictatorship	World communism	1930	1955
Socialist Republic of Romania (1965-1989) Romanian People's Republic (1965-1965)	Communism Marxism–Leninism Socialism Stalinism	Unitary one-party republican dictatorship	Greater Romania World communism	1965	1989

Islamist totalitarian states

Country	Ideologies	Government	End goals	Date of establishment	Date of dissolution
Al-Qaeda Emirate in Yemen (2011-present) Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (2006-2011)	Qutbism Salafism Salafist jihadism	Theocratic proto-state emirate (2011-present) Theocratic proto-state (2006-2011)	Worldwide caliphate	2006	Present
Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen	Militant Islamism Salafi jihadism Wahhabism	Theocratic proto-state	Worldwide caliphate	2006	Present
Islamic State (2014-present) Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (2013-2014)	Salafism Salafi jihadism Wahhabism	Theocratic proto-state caliphate and dictatorship	Worldwide caliphate	2013	Present
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	Islamism Wahhabism	Unitary theocratic absolute monarchy		1932	Present
Quetta Shura	Deobandi fundamentalism Pashtunwali Religious nationalism	Theocratic proto-state and theocratic government in exile	Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan	2001	Present
Tahrir al-Sham (2017-present) Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (2016-2017) Al-Nusra Front (2012-2016)	Islamism Salafism Salafist jihadism Wahhabism	Theocratic proto-state	Worldwide caliphate	2012	Present

Former Islamist totalitarian states

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan	Deobandi fundamentalism Pashtunwali Religious nationalism	Unitary theocratic emirate	Afghani unification	1996	2001
Taliban	Deobandi fundamentalism Pashtunwali Religious nationalism	Theocratic proto-state	Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan	1994	1996

Former right-wing totalitarian states

Country	Ideologies	Government	End goals	Date of establishment	Date of dissolution
Albanian Kingdom	Albanian nationalism Greater Albania Italian Fascism Mussolinism	Unitary one-party protectorate and dependency under a unitary one-party constitutional monarchical dictatorship	Greater Albania	1939	1943
Albanian Kingdom	Albanian nationalism Greater Albania	Unitary one-party constitutional monarchical regency and dictatorship	Greater Albania	1943	1944
Greater German Reich (1943-1945) German Reich (1933-1943)	National Socialism Hitlerism	Unitary one-party dictatorship (1934-1945) Unitary semi-presidential dictatorship (1933-1934)	Greater Germany New Order Pan-Germanicism Pan-Germanism Thousand year Reich	1933	1945
Greater Japanese Empire Kwantung Korea South Pacific Mandate Taiwan	Japanese nationalism Japanese militarism Shōwa statism State Shinto Para-fascism	Unitary one-party constitutional monarchical military dictatorship	Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere Greater Japan Pan-Asianism	1940	1945
Independent State of Croatia	Croatian nationalism Ultranationalism Clerical fascism Fascism	Unitary one-party dictatorship (1943-1945) Unitary one-party constitutional monarchical dictatorship and protectorate under a unitary one-party constitutional monarchical dictatorship (1941-1943)	Greater Croatia	1941	1945
Italian Social Republic Islands of the Aegean Tientsin (1943-1943)	Fascism Mussolinism	Unitary one-party republican dictatorship	Greater Italy Greater Somalia Italian reunification New Roman Empire Pan-Latinism	1943	1945
Kingdom of Italy Cyrenaica East Africa (1936-1941) Eritrea Fezzan Islands of the Aegean Libya (1934-1943) Somaliland Tientsin Tripolitania	Italian Fascism Mussolinism	Unitary one-party constitutional monarchical dictatorship	Greater Italy Greater Somalia New Roman Empire Pan-Latinism	1925	1943
Slovak Republic	Clerical fascism Corporate statism Political Catholicism Slovak nationalism	Unitary one-party presidential republican dictatorship		1939	1945

See also

• Totalitarianism

References