people's republic

See also: People's Republic

English

Etymology

Calque of Russian народная республика (narodnaja respublika), coined in the wake of the Russian Revolution of 1917. A Ukrainian People's Republic (Українська Народна Республіка) was declared in 1917. The term Народна Республіка at the time (1918-1919) was translated into English as "People's Republic" or as "National Republic" and rarely as "Popular Republic".

later use in self-designation

But the states using the same self-designation forming after World War II, the People's Republics of Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croat narodna republika), Albania (Albanian republika popullore), Bulgaria (Bulgarian народна република), Romania (Romanian republica populară) and China (Chinese 人民共和国, i.e. 人民+共和国) were rendered in English as "people's republics", or rarely as "popular republics", but not as "national republics".

Noun

people 's republic (plural people's republics)

A self-designation of states with Marxist-Leninist governments.
(usually capitalized, humorous) A particular area with strong left-leaning tendencies, especially one with a certain level of autonomy.
- 2013, Mahzarin R. Banaji, ‎Anthony G. Greenwald, Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People, page 133:
  Remember, this study was conducted in Massachusetts, in the politically liberal climate of the “People's Republic of Cambridge,” where parents strive almost as hard to create racially nonbiased behavior in their children as they do to get them into the proper school.
Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see people,‎ 's,‎ republic.

Synonyms

(rare) popular republic
(rare, obsolete) national republic

Translations

self-designation of states with Marxist-Leninist governments

Albanian: republika popullore f
Arabic: الْجُمْهُورِيَّة الشَّعْبِيَّة‎ m (al-jumhūriyya š-šaʿbiyya)
Armenian: ժողովրդական հանրապետություն (žołovrdakan hanrapetutʿyun)
Belarusian: наро́дная рэспу́бліка f (naródnaja respúblika)
Bengali: গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী (gôṇôprôjatôntrī)
Bulgarian: народна република f (narodna republika)
Burmese: ပြည်သူ့သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ (pranysu.samma.ta.nuingngam)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 人民共和國 (zh), 人民共和国 (zh) (rénmín gònghéguó)
Czech: lidová republika f
Danish: folkerepublik c
Dutch: volksrepubliek (nl) f
Finnish: kansantasavalta (fi)
French: république populaire (fr) f
German: Volksrepublik (de) f
Hungarian: népköztársaság (hu)
Icelandic: alþýðulýðveldi n
Indonesian: republik rakyat
Irish: daon-phoblacht f
Italian: repubblica popolare f
Japanese: 人民共和国 (jinmin kyōwakoku)

Khmer: សាធារណរដ្ឋប្រជាមានិត (sathéarnârdthâbrâchéaméanĭt)
Korean: 인민공화국 (ko) (inmin-gonghwaguk)
Macedonian: народна република f (narodna republika)
Malay: republik rakyat
Norwegian:
Bokmål: folkerepublikk m

Nynorsk: folkerepublikk m
Persian: جمهوری خلق‎ (jomhuri-ye xalq)
Polish: republika ludowa
Portuguese: república popular f
Russian: наро́дная респу́блика (ru) f (naródnaja respúblika)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: народна република f

Roman: narodna republika f
Spanish: república popular f
Swedish: folkrepublik c
Turkish: halk cumhuriyeti
Ukrainian: народна республіка f (narodna respublika)
Uyghur: خەلق جۇمھۇرىيىتى‎ (xelq jumhuriyiti)
Zhuang: yinzminz gunghozgoz

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