List of totalitarian regimes

This is a list of totalitarian dictatorships.

Totalitarian states

Islamist totalitarian states

Country Leader Ideologies Government End goals Date of establishment Date of dissolution
Saudi ArabiaKingdom of Saudi Arabia[1] House of Al Saud Hanbali
Islamism
Wahhabism
Saudi Arabian nationalism
Unitary Islamic absolute monarchy Saudi Vision 2030 1932
Sudan Republic of the Sudan[2] Omar al Bashir[2] Arab nationalism
Muslim Brotherhood
Islamism
Salafism
Social conservatism
Federal dominant-party presidential republic
(1998–present)
Federal one-party republic
(1993-1998)
1993

Former Islamist totalitarian states

Country Leader Ideologies Government End goals Date of establishment Date of dissolution
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan[3] Mohammed Omar[3][4] Deobandi fundamentalism[5]
Islamism[5]
Pashtunwali[6]
Islamic nationalism
Religious nationalism[6]
Salafi jihadism[3]
Unitary Islamic theocratic absolute monarchy[4] Talibanization
Afghan reunification[3]
1996[3] 2001[3]
Islamic Republic of Iran[7] Ruhollah Khomeini Islamism
Shia Islam
Khomeinism
Republicanism
Anti-imperialism
Anti-communism
Anti-Americanism
Anti-Zionism
Unitary one-party theocratic Islamic republic under a Supreme Leader Islamization of Iran 1979 1989

Left-wing totalitarian states

Country Leader Ideologies Government End goals Date of establishment Date of dissolution
North Korea Democratic People's Republic of Korea[8][9][10] Kim dynasty[10] Songbun[11]
Juche[11]
Korean ethnic nationalism
North Korean Cult of Personality
Songun

Socialism

Unitary Juche one-party socialist republic under a hereditary military dictatorship Korean reunification 1948
SyriaSyrian Arab Republic[12] Hafez Al Assad (1971-2000)[12]
Bashar Al Assad (2000–present)[12]
Arab socialism
Pan-Arabism
Ba'athism
Neo-Ba'athism
Assadism
Anti-zionism
Secularism
Unitary one-party republic (until 2011)
Unitary dominant-party republic (since 2011)
Arab Union
Greater Syria
Syrian reunification
1971

Former left-wing totalitarian states

Country Leader Ideologies Government End goals Start date End date
Soviet Union Union of Soviet Socialist Republics[10] Joseph Stalin[10] Stalinism
Stalin's cult of personality
Soviet socialist patriotism
Marxism-Leninism
Communism
Federal Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic Socialism in One Country 1924[10] 1953[10][13][14][15]
China People's Republic of China[10] Mao Zedong[10] Mao Zedong Thought
Mao cult
Chinese nationalism
Marxism-Leninism
Communism
Socialism
Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic Chinese reunification
World communism
World revolution
1949 1976
North Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam[16] Ho Chi Minh Ho Chi Minh Thought
Ho Chi Mihn's cult of personality
Vietnamese nationalism
Marxism-Leninism
Communism
Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic Vietnamese reunification
World communism
World revolution
1945 1969
Cambodia Democratic Kampuchea
(1976-1982)
Cambodia Kampuchea
(1975-1976)[17][18]
Pol Pot Agrarian socialism
Communism
Khmer nationalism
Ethnic nationalism
Mao Zedong Thought
Marxism–Leninism
Socialism
Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic Cambodian genocide
World communism
World revolution
Year Zero
1975 1982
People's Socialist Republic of Albania
(1976-1990)
People's Republic of Albania
(1946-1976)
Enver Hoxha (1946-1985)
Ramiz Alia (1985-1991)
Anti-revisionism
Communism
Hoxhaism
Hoxha’s cult of personality
Marxism–Leninism
Socialism
Mao Zedong Thought
Stalinism
Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic Greater Albania
World communism
World revolution
1946 1991
Socialist Republic of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu Nicolae Ceaușescu's cult of personality
Communism
Stalinism
Romanian nationalism
Marxism–Leninism
National Communism
Protochronism
Socialism
Unitary Marxist-Leninist one-party socialist republic Greater Romania
World communism
World revolution
1971 1989
Iraqi Republic[19] Saddam Hussein 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
Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya[20][21]
(1986-2011)
Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
(1977-1986)
Muammar al Gaddafi African nationalism
Anti-Zionism
Arab nationalism
Gaddafism
Islamic socialism
Pan-Africanism
Third International Theory
Socialism
Unitary Islamic socialist Jamahiriya under a military dictatorship United States of Africa
Arab Union
1977 2011
MyanmarSocialist Republic of the Union of Burma[17] Ne Win Burmese Way to Socialism
Buddhist socialism
Burmese nationalism
Militarism
Isolationism
Xenophobia
Unitary one-party socialist republic under a military dictatorship Autarky 1962 1988

Nationalist totalitarian states

Country Leader Ideologies Government End goals Date of establishment Date of dissolution
Eritrea State of Eritrea[22][23] Isaias Afewerki Eritrean nationalism
Left-wing nationalism
Secularism
Unitary one-party presidential republic 1993
Equatorial Guinea Republic of Equatorial Guinea[24] Teodoro Obiang African nationalism
Militarism
Obiang’s cult of personality
Unitary dominant-party presidential republic
(1991–present)
Unitary one-party republic
(1987-1991)
Unitary presidential republic
(1982-1987)
Unitary presidential republic under a military dictatorship
(1968-1982)
1968

Former nationalist totalitarian states

Country Leader Ideologies Government End goals Date of establishment Date of dissolution
ZaireRepublic of Zaire[25] Mobutu Sese Seko[25] Mobutism[26][27]
African nationalism
Anti-communism
Zairian nationalism
Mobutu's cult of personality
One-party presidential republic under a military dictatorship Authenticité
Africanization
1971 1997
UgandaRepublic of Uganda[28] Idi Amin Dada[28] Social conservatism
Anti-communism
African nationalism
Economic nationalism
Militarism
Isolationism
Xenophobia
Anti-Zionism (from 1976)
Military dictatorship 1971 1979

Former fascist totalitarian states

Country Leader Ideologies Government End goals Date of establishment Date of dissolution
Nazi Germany German Reich[10] Adolf Hitler[10] Fascism
National Socialism
German nationalism
Hitlerism
Pan-Germanicism
Pan-Germanism
Extreme anti-semitism
Unitary one-party republic[29] Axis victory in World War II
Final Solution to the Jewish Question[30]
Greater Germany[30]
Lebensraum
Thousand Year Reich[30]
1933[10] 1945[10]
Italy Kingdom of Italy[note 1][31] Victor Emmanuel III (as King of Italy, de jure)
Benito Mussolini (as Prime Minister of Italy, de facto)[10]
Italian 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
Japan Greater Japanese Empire[note 2][32] Hirohito (as Emperor of Japan)
Hideki Tojo (as Prime Minister of Japan)
Japanese fascism
Para-fascism
Japanese imperialism
Japanese militarism
Japanese nationalism
Ultra-nationalism
Shōwa Statism
Pan-Asianism
State Shinto
Imperial cult
National conservatism
Social conservatism
Unitary one-party military dictatorship under an absolute monarchy
(1940-1945)
Unitary constitutional monarchy under a military dictatorship
(1937-1940)
Axis victory in World War II
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Greater Japan
1937 1945
Romania National Legionary State[33][34] Michael I of Romania (as King of Romania, de jure)
Ion Antonescu (as Prime Minister of Romania, de facto)
Romanian fascism
Clerical fascism
Fascism
Legionarism
Romanian nationalism
Ethnic nationalism
Ultra-nationalism
Agrarianism
Antisemitism
Magyarophobia
Antiziganism
Social conservatism
Unitary one-party constitutional monarchy Axis victory in World War II
Greater Romania
1940 1941
Spain Spanish State[35][36] Francisco Franco Francoism
Falangism
Franco's cult of personality
Spanish nationalism
National Catholicism
National conservatism
Social conservatism
Unitary one-party absolute monarchy under a military dictatorship Greater Spain 1936 1975

Notes

  1. Hannah Arendt in The Origins of Totalitarianism disputes that Italy was a totalitarian state.
  2. Robert Paxton in The Anatomy of Fascism disputes that Japan was a totalitarian state.

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