The majority of self-declared socialist countries have been Marxist–Leninist or inspired by it, following the model of the Soviet Union or some form of people's or national democracy.
Preamble (1996–2016): "Gathered in the national movement and later within the National Front of Liberation, the Algerian people have made great sacrifices in order to assume their collective destiny in the framework of recovered freedom and cultural identity and to build authentic people's democratic constitutional institutions.
[nb 15] Section 1, Article 3: "The leading force of society in the Socialist Republic of Romania is the Romanian Communist Party".
[73] "The United Arab Republic is a democratic, socialist State based on the alliance of the working powers of the people"
Article One of the Egyptian Constitution of 1971:[77] "The Arab Republic of Egypt is a Socialist Democratic State based on the alliance of the working forces of the people."
[81][82] These are short-lived political entities that emerged during wars, revolutions, or unrest and declared themselves socialist under some interpretation of the term, but which did not survive long enough to create a stable government or achieve international recognition.
This does not include socialist parties following social democracy, which have governed most of the Western world, much of Latin America, and other regions as part of the mainstream centre-left.
PSOL REDE Federation Democratic Socialism Examples of previous direct communist or socialist party rule in non-socialist multi-party democracies include: