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This list summarizes the major one-party regimes in world history as well as the periods of their dictatorship. The commencement time of a one-party system refers to the time when the party seized power or banned other political parties whereas the end time refers to the time when the party lost power or declared the end of one-party rule.
| Countries | Ruling Parties and the Periods of their Dictatorship |
|---|---|
| Mongolia | People's Party (1921.2.3-1925.3), People's Revolutionary Party (1925.3- 1990.5.10) |
| Far Eastern Republic | Russian Social Democratic Workers's Party (1920.4.6-1922.11.15 ) |
| China | Nationalist Party (Mainland China: 1928.10.3-1937.9.23; Taiwan: 1949.12.8- 1987.7.15), Communist Party (1949.10.1- ) |
| [North] Korea | Workers Party of North Korea (1948.9.9-1949.6.30); |
| Japan | Imperial Rule Assistance Association (1940.10.12-1945.6) |
| [North] Viet Nam-Viet Nam | Indochinese Communist Party(1945.9.2-1951.5), Workers' Party(1951.5-1976.12.14), Communist Party(1976.12.14- ) |
| Laos | People's Revolutionary Party (1975.12.2- ) |
| Cambodia | Communist Party (1975.4.17-1979.1.7), People's Revolutionary Party ( 1979.1.7-1991.10.18), People's Party (1991.10.18-1993.6.14) |
| Burma | Party of the Socialist Program (1962.7-1988.9.11) |
| Bangladesh | Peasants, Workers and People's League (1975.8.5-.11.6) |
| Bukhara | Communist Party (1920.10-1925.2.17) |
| Afghanistan | People's Democratic Party-Khalq Faction (1978.4.30-1979.12.27), People's Democratic Party-Parcham Faction (1979.12.27-1990.6), Fatherland Party (1990.6- 1992.4.16) |
| Khwarizm | Communist Party (1920.4.30-1925.2.17) |
| Turkmen | Communist Party (1925.2-.5.13) |
| Uzbek | Communist Party (1924.12.5-1925.5.13) |
| Tajik | Communist Party (1929.10.15-.12.5) |
| Turkmenistan | Communist Party (1991.10.27-.11), Democratic Party (1991.11-2008.9.26) |
| Georgia | Communist Party (1921.2.25-1922.3.12) |
| Transcaucasus | Communist Party (1922.3.12-.12.30) |
| Azerbaijan | Communist Party (1920.4.28-1922.3.12) |
| Armenia | Communist Party (1920.11.20-1922.3.12) |
| Turkey | People's Party (1923-1924.11), Republican People's Party (1924.11-1946) |
| Iraq | Socialist Arab Rebirth Party (1968.7.17-2003.4.9) |
| Syria | Arab Liberation Movement (1953.7.11-1954.2.25), Socialist Arab Rebirth Party (1972.3- ) |
| [Southern] Yemen | National Front (1975.10-1978.10.11), Socialist Party (1978.10.11- 1990.5.22) |
| Russia-USSR | Communist Party (Bolshevik) (1918.3-1925.12.18), All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik) (1925.12.18-1952.10.5), Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1952.10.5- 1990.2.7) |
| Ukraine | Communist Party (1921.5.7-1922.12.30) |
| Byelorussia | Communist Party (1919.1.1-.2.27;1920.8.1-1922.12.30) |
| Lithuania | Nationalist Union (1929-1940.6.15) |
| Estonia | National Association (1935-1940.6.17) |
| Poland | United Workers' Party (1948.12.20-1989.4.7) |
| Danzig | National Socialist German Worker's Party (1937-1939.9.1) |
| Slovakia | People's Party (1939.3.15-1945.4.3) |
| Czechoslovakia | Communist Party (1948.6.14-1989.11.29) |
| Hungary | Party of the Hungarian Workers (1949.8.20-1956.11.1), Socialist Workers' Party (1956.11.1-1989.10.6) |
| Romania | Iron Guard (1940.9.14-1941.1.23), Workers' Party (1948.2-1965.7), Communist Party (1965.7-1989.12.22) |
| Bulgaria | Link (1934.5.19-1935.1.22), Workers' Party (1946.9.15-1948.12.18), Communist Party (1948.12.18-1990.1.15) |
| Croatia | Ustasha (1941.4.10-1945.5.6) |
| Yugoslavia | Communist Party (1945.12.2-1952.11.7), League of Yugoslav Communists (1952.11.7-1990.5.26) |
| Albania | Fascist Party (1939.4.11-1943.2.13), Communist Party (1946.1.11-1948.11), Workers' Party (1948.11-1990.12.11) |
| Germany | National Socialist German Workers' Party (1933.7.14-1945.5.1) |
| [East] Germany | Socialist Unity Party (1949.10.7-1989.11.13) |
| Austria | Fatherland Front (1934-1938.3.11) |
| Italy | National Fascist Party (1922.10.31-1943.7.25) |
| Spain | Phalange Party (1939.4.1-1956), National Movement (1956-1975.11.22) |
| Portugal | National Union (1933.2-1974.4.25) |
| Egypt-United Arab Republic | Arab Socialist Union (1962.12-1976.3) |
| Libya | Arab Socialist Union (1971.6-1977.3.2) |
| Tunisia | Neo-Destur Party (1957.8.30-1964.3), Destourien Socialist Party (1964.3- 1981.7) |
| Algeria | Front for National Liberation (1963.9-1977.10), Front for National Liberation Party(1977.10¢w1988.11), Front for National Liberation (1988.11¢w1989.7) |
| Somalia | Revolutionary Socialist Party (1979.9-1991.1.27) |
| Djibouti | Popular Assembly for Progress Party (1981.10-1992.9.4) |
| Ethiopia | Workers' Party (1984.9-1990.3.7) |
| Eritrea | People's Front for Democracy and Justice (1994.2- ) |
| [Eastern] Sudan | Socialist Union (1972.1-1985.4.6) |
| Chad | Progressive Party (1962.2-1973.9), National Movement for the Cultural and Social Revolution (1973.9-1975.4.13), National Union for Independence and Revolution (1984.6- 1990.12.1) |
| Central Africa | Movement for the Social Evolution of Black Africa (1962.12-1981.2), Democratic Rally (1987.2-1991.7) |
| Cameroon | National Union (1966.9.1-1985.3.24), People's Democratic Rally (1985.3.24 -1990.12) |
| Niger | Progressive Party (1959-1974.4.15), National Movement for the Development of Society (1989.9-1990.11) |
| Upper Volta | Democratic Union (1960.8.5-1966.1.4) |
| Mali | Democratic Union of the Malian People (1979.3-1991.3.26) |
| Mauritania | People's Party (1961.12-1978.7.10) |
| Togo | Unity Party (1962.1¢w1963.1.13), Rally of the Togolese People (1969.11.30- 1990.10) |
| Ghana | Convention People's Party (1964.1-1966.2.24) |
| Dahomey-Benin | Democratic Union (1961.4-1963.10.27), Popular Revolutionary Party ( 1975.11.30-1990.12) |
| Ivory Coast | Democratic Party (1960.8.7-1990.4) |
| Guinea | Democratic Party (1958.10.2-1984.4.3) |
| Senegal | Progressive Union (1963.3-1976.3) |
| Sierra Leone | All People's Congress (1978.6-1991.8) |
| Guinea-Bissau | African Independence Party of Guinea and Cape Verde (1973.9.24-1991.5 ) |
| Cape Verde | African Independence Party of Guinea and Cape Verde (1975.7.5-1981.1), African Party of Independence of Cape Verde (1981.1-1990.9) |
| Rwanda | Revolutionary Movment for National Development (1978.12-1991.4), Repulican Movment for National Democracy and Development (1991.4-.5) |
| Burundi | Union of National Progress (1966.11.28-1992.3) |
| Tanzania | Revolutionary State Party (1977.4-1992.4) |
| Uganda | People's Congress (1969.12-1971.1.25) |
| Kenya | African National Union (1982.6-1991.12) |
| [West] Congo | National Revolutionary Movement (1964.7-1969.12.31), Labour Party ( 1969.12.31-1990.7) |
| Gabon | Democratic Bloc (1964.2-1968.3), Democratic Party (1968.3-1990.4) |
| [East] Congo-Zaire | Popular Revolutionary Movement (1967.5-1990.4.24), Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (1997.5.17-2003.6.30) |
| Equatorial Guinea | National United Party (1970.7-1972.7), Worker's National United Party (1972.7-1979.8.3), Democratic Party (1986.12.23-1991.8) |
| Sao Tome | Liberation Movement (1975.11-1990.8) |
| Angola | Popular Liberation Movement (1975.11.11-1977.12), Popular Liberation Movement -Labour Party (1977.12-1991.3) |
| Malawi | Malawi Congress Party (1966.7.6-1994.5) |
| Zambia | United National Independence Party (1973.8.25-1990.12) |
| Mozambique | Liberation Front (1975.6.25-1977.2), Liberation Front Party (1977.2- 1990.11) |
| Venda | National Party(1986.8-1990.4.5) |
| Madagascar | Vanguard of the Malagasy Revolution (1976.3.19-1990.3) |
| Comoros | Union for Progress (1983.5-1989.11.26) |
| Seychelles | Progressive Front of the Seychelles People (1979.3-1991) |
| Cuba | Integrated Revolutionary Organizations (1961.7-1962.5), United Party of the Cuban Socialist Revolution (1962.5-1965.10), Communist Party (1965.10- ) |
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