Communist Countries in History

Can you name all the countries of the world that have ever been run as a single-party Marxist state?

Some of these countries no longer exist!

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Years	Country
1978–1992	Afghanistan
1946–1992	Albania
1975–1992	Angola
1975–1990	Benin
1946–1990	Bulgaria
1979–1989	Cambodia
1949–	China
1959–	Cuba
1948–1990	Czechoslovakia

Years	Country
1949–1990	East Germany
1987–1991	Ethiopia
1979–1983	Grenada
1949–1989	Hungary
1975–	Laos
1924–1990	Mongolia
1975–1990	Mozambique
1948–2009	North Korea
1945–1976	North Vietnam

Years	Country
1944–1989	Poland
1970–1991	Rep. of the Congo
1947–1989	Romania
1969–1991	Somalia
1967–1990	South Yemen
1922–1991	Soviet Union
1976–	Vietnam
1945–1991	Yugoslavia

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101 Recent Comments

+11

Level 24

Aug 26, 2019

not joking,... i forgot NORTH KOREA

Level 63

Sep 12, 2025

sameeeeee

Level 49

Nov 20, 2025

same

Level 75

Oct 11, 2019

Why did almost all of them abandon communism between 1989 and 1992?

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Level 79

Oct 11, 2019

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, which was presaged by the many Soviet-friendly regimes in Eastern Europe and around the world falling out of favor and losing power starting in the late 80s.

Level 75

Oct 13, 2019

I think I know why they fell out of favour prior to their collapse, with them in Europe and Afghanistan but why did the others in Asia and Africa?

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Level 79

Oct 14, 2019

Many of those regimes were supported by the USSR. When the USSR began to fail, that support got cut off, and eventually the motivation for them to identify as Communist went away, even when they stayed in place enforcing roughly the same policies. In other cases, the Communist regimes in these places were murderous and oppressive and after a few years or few decades of this locals rose up against them.

Level 75

Oct 15, 2019

Out of curiosity, which nations had murderous and oppressive communist governments which fell because of locals rising up against them?

Level 79

Oct 15, 2019

To various degrees... Ethiopia, Romania, Poland, etc. Ethiopia maybe being the most clear example as the Derg were eventually ousted by the Ethiopian Civil War. Some of these regimes were not quite as bad and some of the uprisings against them took the form of social protest or peaceful political movements in opposition.

Level 58

Oct 12, 2019

Ethiopia was ruled by the Communist Derg from 1974-87 as well, it should be for 74-91

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Level 48

Jan 7, 2020

Burkina Faso under sankara?

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Level 77

Apr 3, 2025

Yes! Include Burkina Faso under Thomas Sankara, may he rest in power! Or are you too scared to show a very well functioning Marxist nation, that was anti-imperialist, did a lot of feminist work (prohibition of FGC, forced marriages and polygamy), effectively fought against HIV, deforestation and poverty, had big vaccination campaigns with extremely good results and imprisoned corrupt politicians. And it ended because of a coup, not because supposedly communism doesn’t work.

Level 65

Mar 26, 2026

Illuminating information, nicely disseminated.

More Mr. Clark than Murray, no offense Murray

Brave character

+25

Level 59

Feb 11, 2020

Burkina Faso?

+11

Level 55

May 6, 2020

Togo, Gabon, Guinea, Ghana, Myanmar, Eritrea, and Tanzania were Communist too.

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Level 69

May 19, 2020

Wasn't Tannu Tuva as well?

Level 60

Jun 19, 2020

Cyprus had a communist president from 2008-2013, although they weren't a one-party state

Level 63

Nov 16, 2020

Nepal?

Level 35

Nov 28, 2020

wheres cuba, cuba is a communist country

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Level 79

Oct 7, 2021

90 miles south of Miami?

Level 39

Mar 16, 2021

you ought to incude sankara's burkina faso... or just delete the quiz because the title is oxymoronic ;)

Level 51

Mar 23, 2021

Haiti?

Level 59

Apr 17, 2021

Madagascar?

Level 39

Apr 23, 2021

communist 'countries' lmao

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Level 33

May 11, 2021

This is OUR quiz.

Level 68

Aug 27, 2021

Quizzers of the world unite.

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Level 89

Aug 27, 2021

Urm, not sure you can say Mongolia is still communist. The Mongolian People's Party pivoted to social democracy after the 1990 revolution.

Level 89

Aug 27, 2021

It's certainly not a single-party state now. They've lost multiple elections in the last 30 years.

Level 71

Aug 27, 2021

Is there a reason Cambodia wasn't a communist country from 1975 to 1979 under Pol Pot? The Wikipedia description says "Kampuchea... was the Cambodian state under a one-party Marxist-Leninist totalitarian dictatorship that existed between 1975 and 1979." That sounds like it fits the quiz description to me.

Level 77

Aug 27, 2021

As a Cambodian, Pol Pot was our Joseph Stalin.

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Level 36

Aug 27, 2021

People's Republic of Mongolia ended in 1992 tho

Level 73

Aug 27, 2021

Was just about to say that! Probably a typo

Level 72

Aug 29, 2021

What about Greece? It had a civil war after WWII which puts it in a similar position as Yemen.

Level 72

Feb 12, 2024

South Yemen was an actual independent state, it united with North Yemen in 1990.

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Level 66

Aug 29, 2021

Mongolia stopped being communist in 1990

Level 66

Dec 6, 2021

kicking myself for not remembering South Yemen.

Level 28

Dec 12, 2021

you forgot south america

Level 49

Dec 15, 2021

Wasńt Hungary communist for a good year after the first world war

Level 65

Dec 24, 2021

Mongolia isn't communist since 1992.

Level 69

Dec 29, 2021

bruh,dprk is still communist

Level 47

Mar 27, 2022

No, it's not. The North Koreans removed references to communism in their constitution in 2009.

Level 44

Jan 15, 2025

don't they still call themselves communist?

Level 69

Dec 29, 2021

Mongolia is a Democracy NOT Communist,it was only communist in the 20's 30's and 40's as well as under Soviet rule.

Level 88

Dec 30, 2021

What's your source for Mongolia being communist?

Level 52

Jan 27, 2022

north korea aint communist, it seems like it, but they are technically an unfair democracy. They have votes, but kim just always wins, and some are rigged. Also in that country sharing and equality is extinct there.

Level 49

Feb 3, 2022

Missing Burkina Faso

Level 31

Apr 12, 2022

Mongolia is currently communist?

Level 68

Jul 15, 2022

no. none of these countries are/were actually communist, hell even in the title it clarifies that these are "single-party marxist states". Mongolia is not a one-party state so I don't know why it's not listed as ending in 1990.

Level 60

May 6, 2022

Ha, this is a trick question. None of these countries have ever been communist. In strict sense, there has never been a communist state, ever and likely never will be.

Level 56

May 9, 2022

I cant seriously have remembered countries like Grenada and Benin and forgotten Afghanistan and Yugoslavia.

Level 28

Jun 9, 2022

Mongolia is still Communist?

Level 68

Jul 15, 2022

It has multiple parties, which breaks the criteria so idk why it's listed as not having ended in 1990.

Level 25

Jun 26, 2022

I forgot Angola bruh and that’s not the worst I forgot the Ussr ;-;

Level 17

Aug 20, 2022

Why isnt there san marino

San marino was a communist country

Level 47

Nov 28, 2023

I know right? Like the Sammarinese Communist Party were in power from 1945 to March of 1957.

Level 58

Nov 1, 2022

Mongolia ceased to be communist country in 1990. Might want to fix that on the quiz. Ethiopia was also ruled by a communist military regime (the Derg) from 1974 until 1987, so the correct dates for Ethiopia would technically be 1974-1991.

Level 72

Nov 13, 2022

So Mongolia is still communist and North Korea isn’t? Really?

Level 15

Nov 15, 2022

You forgot san marino

Level 53

Nov 21, 2022

A little surprised North Korea isn't a communist country anymore.

Level 68

May 19, 2023

All they did was remove refernces to it from their constitution. In the end, nothing has really changed.

Level 49

Jul 19, 2024

dictatorship

Level 54

Apr 5, 2025

One of the biggest misconceptions is that communism is a synonym for dictatorship. In true Marxist communism the state will have faded away, there will be no political parties, and there will be some sort of communal anarchism. All of these countries were socialist, ruled by Communist parties that had/ and have various degrees of intent of transitioning to communism.

Level 71

Nov 29, 2022

San Marino had a democratically-elected communist government from 1945 to 1957 until they were voted out

Level 68

May 19, 2023

The countries here have to be single party. San Marino (and Nepal for that matter) are/were democratic, so wouldn't be on this list.

Level 32

Dec 6, 2022

Mongolia is no longer socialist

Level 26

Dec 7, 2022

mongolia hasent been communist for like 30 years

Level 28

Dec 9, 2022

You should add Kampuchea and Tuva.

Level 55

Jan 10, 2023

I named Benin but forgot Soviet Union until the end of the quiz

Level 28

Jan 20, 2023

San Marino was once communist actually in 1978 and from 1945-1957

Level 68

May 19, 2023

It wasn't (and still isn't) a single-party state. Same with Nepal. both are democratic and wouldn't fit the criteria for this list.

Level 68

May 19, 2023

I think Seychelles should count because of the 79 constitution which declared it a single party socialist state under Rene. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seychelles

Level 63

Apr 3, 2025

agree

Level 36

Sep 23, 2025

For sure

Level 26

Aug 22, 2023

Mongolia isn’t communist anymore, hasn’t been since 1990.

Level 58

Sep 9, 2023

Guyana was Communist from 1980 to 1992 under Forbes Burnham.

Level 67

Sep 9, 2023

Tannu Tuva?

Level 55

Sep 9, 2023

I'm guessing it isn't included because it was only partially recognised.

Level 55

Sep 9, 2023

The comments are starting to sound like a broken record but, they're right. Mongolia is no longer a single-party Marxist state.

Level 28

Sep 10, 2023

Would Burkina Faso count now?

Level 55

Sep 10, 2023

Why is Mongolia marked as being still communist?

Level ∞

Sep 10, 2023

Fixed

Level 51

Apr 18, 2024

madagascar and burkina faso?

Level 41

Feb 3, 2024

Isn't Eritrea communist?

Level 64

Feb 9, 2024

Apologies to be That Person, but aren't these countries technically all socialist? I mean, ik the description says single party Marxist state- which these were, but communism hasn't actually been achieved. The manifesto suggested a utopia and a virtually perfect society with selfless people and while that isn't a bad idea, nobody has gotten it right. It probably won't be achieved bc humanity is mostly selfish, but I just think that a bunch of these countries could be described as socialist rather than communist

Level 51

Feb 26, 2024

How does North Korea define itself since 2009, then? As a purely Jucheist state?

Level 51

Apr 18, 2024

yes

Level 22

Mar 3, 2024

Missed out on the hardest four: Benin, Grenada, South Yemen and Somalia (l find it strange that the notoriously famished Horn of Africa has had a strong affinity for communism, especially as the doctrine had been historically largely averted by Arab countries). I also expected to find Myanmar and other Southern African and Latin American states on the list (apparently not).

Level 54

Apr 19, 2024

I just forgot the country I'm living in :/

Level 49

Jul 19, 2024

transnistria

Level 69

Sep 14, 2024

34/36 1st try.

I fumbled with South Yemen as i forgot it, and i would've never guessed Grenada. Benin i just randomly guessed because i only remembered that there was 1 West-African country that was communist for a short time.

Level 58

Sep 25, 2024

doesnt north Korea still follow a communist ideology?

Level 68

Nov 4, 2024

Somehow I forgot the USSR thinking I did it earlier

Level 36

Nov 18, 2024

Paris commune?

Level 21

Nov 24, 2024

Nah I tried all the former soviet states just to find out that you had to put the ussr

Level 30

Dec 6, 2024

my guy forgot tannu Tuva

Level 32

Jan 5, 2025

San Marino was ever democraticly choosen to become communist

Level 66

Mar 13, 2025

San Marino?

Level 53

Apr 3, 2025

Not a one-party state

Level 64

Apr 3, 2025

Bit of a janky quiz. I write Vietnam and get both North and regular, but I write Russia and get nothing. Most other quizzes would accept that answer.

Level 22

Nov 29, 2025

missing a lot of countries

Level 48

Mar 2, 2026

Chile? Gilan?