Ephemeral edit
These are short-lived political entities that emerged during wars or revolutions (mostly in the aftermath of World War I) and declared themselves "socialist" under some interpretation of the term, but did not survive long enough to create a stable government or achieve international recognition.
Paris Commune (18 March–28 May 1871)- Strandzha Commune (18 August–8 September 1903)
Soviet Republic of Soldiers and Fortress-Builders of Naissaar (December 1917–26 February 1918)- Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic (28 January–29 April 1918)
- Odessa Soviet Republic (31 January–13 March 1918)
Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic (12 February–May 1918)
Alsace Soviet Republic (9–22 November 1918)- Free Socialist Republic of Germany (9 November 1918–11 August 1919)
Commune of the Working People of Estonia (29 November 1918–5 June 1919)- Saxony Soviet (November 1918–14 March 1919)[1]
Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic (17 December 1918–13 January 1920)
Free Territory (1918–1921)
Lithuanian–Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (27 February–25 August 1919)- Hungarian Soviet Republic (21 March–6 August 1919)
- Mughan Soviet Republic (March–June 1919)
- Bavarian Council Republic (6 April–3 May 1919)
- Limerick Soviet (15–27 April 1919)
- Crimean Socialist Soviet Republic (28 April–26 June 1919)
- Bessarabian Soviet Socialist Republic (May–September 1919; 15–18 September 1924)
- Slovak Soviet Republic (16 June–7 July 1919)
Persian Socialist Soviet Republic (9 June 1920–September 1921)
Galician Soviet Socialist Republic (8 July–21 September 1920)
Hunan Soviet (9 September 1927–October 1927; succeed by Jiangxi–Fujian Soviet and then Chinese Soviet Republic)
Guangzhou Commune (Guangzhou Soviet) (11 December 1927–13 December 1927)
Shinmin Prefecture (1929–1932)
Nghệ-Tĩnh Soviet (1930–1931)
Chinese Soviet Republic (7 November 1931–22 September 1937)
Socialist Republic of Chile (4 June–2 October 1932)
People's Revolutionary Government of the Republic of China (22 November 1933–13 January 1934)- Asturian Socialist Republic (October 5–18 1934)
Anarchist Aragon (21 July 1936–1939)- Revolutionary Catalonia (21 July 1936–1939)
Finnish Democratic Republic (December 1939–March 1940)
Political Committee of National Liberation of Greece (10 March 1944–28 August 1949)
Second East Turkestan Republic (12 November 1944–20 December 1949)
People's Republic of Korea (6 September 1945–February 1946)
Azerbaijan People's Government (November 1945–December 1946)
Republic of Mahabad (22 January–15 December 1946)- Provisional People's Committee for North Korea (February 1946–9 September 1948)
Marquetalia Republic (1948–1958)
Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam (8 June 1969–2 June 1976)
National Revolutionary Council of Gambia (30 July 1981–5 August 1981)
Democratic Republic of Yemen (21 May–7 July 1994)
- ^ cahoon, ben. "German States since 1918". worldstatesmen.org.