Explanation:
This is a list of totalitarian regimes.
The list distinguishes between totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, listing the former and not the latter. Totalitarianism is an extreme version of authoritarianism. Authoritarianism primarily differs from totalitarianism in that social and economic institutions exist that are not under governmental control.[1]
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Country 3 Academic Sources Leader(s) Ruling Party Ideology Government Start of totalitarianism End of totalitarianism Continent
Soviet Union Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [2] Joseph Stalin Communist Party of the Soviet Union Stalinism
Soviet socialist patriotism
Marxism–Leninism
Soviet communism Federal Marxist–Leninist one-party socialist republic 1924[2] 1953[2][3][4][5] Eurasia
Nazi Germany Greater German Reich [2] Adolf Hitler National Socialist German Workers' Party Nazism
Pan-Germanism
Antisemitism
Scientific racism Unitary National Socialist one-party state[6] 1933[2] 1945[2] Europe
People's Socialist Republic of Albania [7][8][9] Enver Hoxha (1946–1985)
Ramiz Alia (1985–1990) Party of Labour of Albania Communism
Hoxhaism
Marxism–Leninism
Anti-revisionism Unitary Hoxhaist one-party republic 1946 1990 Europe
North Korea Democratic People's Republic of Korea [10][11][2] Kim dynasty Workers' Party of Korea Juche
Songun Unitary one-party republic[12] 1948 Active Asia
Hungarian People's Republic Hungarian People's Republic [13][14][15][16] Mátyás Rákosi Hungarian Working People's Party Stalinism
Marxism–Leninism Unitary Marxist–Leninist one-party socialist republic 1949 1953 Europe
China People's Republic of China Mao Zedong Chinese Communist Party Chinese communism
Marxism–Leninism
Mao Zedong Thought Unitary one-party socialist republic 1949 1976[2] Asia
Myanmar MyanmarSocialist Republic of the Union of Burma [17] Ne Win Burma Socialist Programme Party Burmese Way to Socialism Unitary one-party socialist republic 1962 1988 Asia
Socialist Republic of Romania [18][19] Nicolae Ceaușescu Romanian Communist Party Communism
Marxism–Leninism
National Communism Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic 1971 1989 Europe
Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea [20] Francisco Macías Nguema United National Workers' Party Socialism[21]
Anti-colonalism[22]
Anti-intellectualism[23]
Unitary socialist one-party presidential republic 1968 1979 Africa
Cambodia Democratic Kampuchea [17][24] Pol Pot Communist Party of Kampuchea Agrarianism
Communism
Khmer nationalism
Maoism Unitary Marxist–Leninist one-party socialist republic 1975 1979 Asia
Eritrea State of Eritrea [25][26] Isaias Afewerki People's Front for Democracy and Justice Eritrean nationalism
Left-wing nationalism
Secularism Unitary one-party presidential republic 1993 Active Africa
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan [27][28] Mohammed Omar[29][30] Taliban (de facto) Deobandi fundamentalism[31]
Islamism[31]
Pashtunwali[32]
Religious nationalism[32]
Salafist jihadism[29] Unitary Islamic theocracy[30] 1996 2001 Asia
