people's republic

People's Republic (sometimes Popular Republic) is a title that is often used by Marxist-Leninist governments to describe their state. Examples include:

Hungarian People's Republic (1918-1919, 1949-1989)
Mongolian People's Republic (1924-1992)
People's Republic of Albania (1946-1976)
People's Republic of Bulgaria (1946-1990)
People's Republic of Romania (1947-1965)
People's Republic of China (1949- )
People's Republic of Poland (1952-1989)
People's Republic of South Yemen (1967-1970)
People's Republic of the Congo (1970-1992)
People's Republic of Mozambique (1975-1990)
People's Republic of Angola (1975-1992)
People's Republic of Kampuchea (1979-1989)

Other Communist Party-led states are/were sometimes referred to as democratic republics (e.g. the German Democratic Republic), or democratic people's republics (e.g. the Democratic People's Republic of Korea). There is also a usage of the term "People's Republic" in United States political conservative sarcasm: it is used to refer to any predominantly left-wing or liberal area, especially those cities with a large, liberal, university population - for example the "People's Republic of Berkeley" or "People's Republic of Austin". See The People's Republic of.

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