* 1944 – ASNOM: birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.

The Bolsheviks came to power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and founded the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic which would later in 1922 become the chief constituent of the Soviet Union.

: The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( SFRY ) broke apart in 1991.

Costa Rica occupied a nonpermanent seat in the Security Council from 1997 to 1999 and exercised a leadership role in confronting crises in the Middle East and Africa, as well as in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Coat of arms of the Socialist Republic of Croatia

Croatia was a Socialist Republic part of a six-part Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia.

Following the collapse of the ruling Communist Party in Yugoslavia, Croatia adopted a new constitution in 1990 – which replaced the 1974 constitution adopted by the Socialist Republic of Croatia – and organised its first multi-party elections.

" It was replaced by the State Political Administration or GPU, a section of the NKVD of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( RSFSR ).

" Several delegates to the Congress were quite specific in the criticism, one of them accusing Lenin and his associates of making the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic a place of exile for opponents.

Under Khrushchev the local party leadership in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( Russian SFSR ) witnessed the largest turnover in provincial leaders since the Great Purge ; two out of three provincial leaders were replaced in 1953 alone.

The Bureau of the Central Committee of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( RSFSR ) was established in 1956 as an organ whose sole responsibility was handling the affairs of the RSFSR.

The RSFSR, until the establishment of the Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1990, was the only Soviet republic lacking a republic-level party organisation.

In the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic itself there was no separate Communist Party until 1990 as affairs were controlled directly by the CPSU.

* 1918 – Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declares the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic.

* 1936 – The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.

* 1934 – Stjepan Mesić, president of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Secretary General of Non-Aligned Movement and president of Croatia

The SNP, although being a predominantly social-democratic party, joined the European Progressive Democrats, which was led by the Gaullist Rally for the Republic, the SDLP the Socialist Group, VU and FDF the heterogeneous Technical Group of Independents, which comprised both conservative and left-wing MEPs, and the SVP the European People's Party group.

On 11 January 1946, Zog was officially deposed, and Albania was proclaimed the People's Republic of Albania ( renamed the People's Socialist Republic of Albania in 1976 ).

* 1976 – Fall of the Republic of Vietnam ; Communist North Vietnam declares their union to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

After four years of rule, the Khmer Rouge regime was removed from power in 1979 as a result of an invasion by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and was replaced by moderate, pro-Vietnamese Communists.

However in recent decades an alternative Marxist-Leninist economy that exists is the Socialist market economy that has been used by the People's Republic of China, Socialist Republic of Vietnam and historically by the People's Republic of Hungary and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

* Socialist republic — Countries like China and Vietnam are meant to be governed for and by the people, but with no direct elections.

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam has adopted a similar model after the Doi Moi economic renovation, but slightly differs from the Chinese model in that the Vietnamese government retains firm control over the state sector and strategic industries, but allows for private-sector activity in commodity production.

* 1977 – The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.

The politics of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam are defined by a single-party socialist republic framework, where the President of Vietnam is the head of state and the Prime Minister of Vietnam is the head of government, in a one-party system led by the Communist Party of Vietnam.

The President of the Socialist Republic () is elected by the National Assembly for a five-year term and acts as the commander-in-chief of the Vietnam People's Armed Forces and Chairman of the Council for Defence and Security.

Vietnam is a Socialist Republic with a one-party system led by the Communist Party of Vietnam ( CPV ).

* July 2 – North Vietnam and South Vietnam unite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

* April 15 – The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Although the name is similar, it markedly differs from the socialist market economy and Socialist-oriented market economy, which is practiced within the People's Republic of China and Socialist Republic of Vietnam, respectively.

* Hero of Socialist Labour ( Vietnam, 1964 )

Both Nader and Camejo said the main reason they ran in the 2004 election was because there were no other national candidates demanding an immediate withdrawal of American troops from what they believe is an immoral and unconstitutionally pursued War in Iraq ( though Green David Cobb, Libertarian Michael Badnarik, Constitution Party candidate Michael Peroutka, Socialist Party USA candidate Walt Brown and Socialist Workers Party candidate Róger Calero also opposed the war to varying degrees.

This is similar to the class-based opposition to the Israeli regime pursued by Ma ' avak Sotzialisti (" Socialist Struggle "), the CWI section in Israel.

With the agreement of both groups, the International Secretariat divided the British section and the minority pursued the entry tactic and published the newspaper Socialist Outlook from 1948.

Under Soviet control, the Polish government officially adopted Socialist realism as the only acceptable art form which should be pursued by artists.

" With regard to Hitler's later ambition of imposing a National Socialist regime throughout Europe, Nazi propaganda used the term Neuordnung ( often poorly translated as " the New Order ", while actually referring to the " re-structurization " of state borders on the European map and the resulting post-war economic hegemony of Greater Germany ), so one could probably say that the Nazis pursued " a " new world order.

He then dropped out of politics for a decade while he pursued his medical career, but in 1957 joined the Trotskyist group led by Gerry Healy, the Club, which in 1959 became the Socialist Labour League.

In the First Burmese Socialist Programme Party ( BSPP ) Congress in 1971, economic reforms were made, in light of the failures of the economic policy pursued throughout the 1960s.

Failure to address the economic and social disparities and increasing political awareness of the less-affluent population, as well as indirect intervention and economic funding to the main political groups by both the KGB and the CIA, as part of the Cold War, led to a political polarization under Socialist President Salvador Allende which in turn resulted in the 11 September 1973 coup and the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, whose 17-year regime was responsible for numerous human rights violations and deep market-oriented economic reforms.

During 1996, however, the economy collapsed due to the Bulgarian Socialist Party's slow and mismanaged economic reforms and an unstable and decentralised banking system, which led to an inflation rate of 311 % and the collapse of the lev.

Many of these reforms were also in the Socialist Party platform under its leader, Terre Haute native Eugene V. Debs.

Pakistan Socialist Party and Pakistan Social Democratic Party, together with PPP, committed to the socialist transformations and reforms with an opposition to one-party dictatorship and authoritarianism.

In 1981, François Mitterrand, a Socialist, was elected president, on a program of far-reaching reforms ( 110 Propositions for France ).

He was criticized for his silence on important reforms and issues, and his moderacy which resulted in other parties claiming opposition leadership, among them most notably the Socialist Party.

Various ideological beliefs were factionalised under reforms to the ALP under Gough Whitlam, resulting in what is now known as the Socialist Left who tend to favour a more interventionist economic policy, more authoritative top-down controls and some socially progressive ideals, and Labor Right, the now dominant faction that is pro-business, more economically liberal and focuses to a lesser extent on social issues.

Governments led by the Socialist Party of Chile, by Alan García in Peru, by Tabaré Vázquez in Uruguay, and by Lula in Brazil, have in practise maintained a high degree of continuity with the economic policies described under the Washington Consensus ( debt-paying, protection to foreign investment, financial reforms, etc .).

In December 1985, the various Christian militias, the Shiite Amal Movement and the Druze Progressive Socialist Party met in Damascus reaching agreement on political reforms as well as special relations with Syria.

Standing for End Poverty in California, EPIC was an effort for well-known muckraking writer and former Socialist Upton Sinclair to implement socialist reforms through California's Democratic Party during the Great Depression by recruiting supporters into the party and then securing that party's nomination for the 1934 California gubernatorial election.

The UP was a coalition of left and center-left parties dominated by the Socialist Party of Chile and the Communist Party of Chile, both of which sought to implement deep institutional, political, and economic reforms.

After the People's Republic of China began making economic reforms in 1979, PCdoB decided to aligned itself with the Socialist People's Republic of Albania, an example of consistency and fidelity to Marxism-Leninism in the opinion of its leaders.

The Federation of the Socialist Workers of France was termed " possibilist " because it advocated gradual reforms, whereas the French Workers ' Party promoted Marxism.

During his leadership the Socialist Party of Albania, as a result of reforms joined the Socialist International and Party of European Socialists.

Suslov was opposed to any sort of radical reforms attempted by the Eastern Bloc leaders, but voted against Soviet military intervention in both the People's Republic of Hungary in 1956 ( initially ), and in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1968 during the Prague Spring.

Though the party was originally founded as a conservative, Republican and generally anti-Communist and anti-Monarchist party which wanted reforms to speed up so democracy could be put in place more quickly, and founded as a alternative to the Democratic Party and the Socialist Party, it has usually been aligned with the centre-right Democratic Party due to the fact that it was bitterly opposed to the Socialists, who they regarded as communists hiding under a more moderate centre-left guise.

In contrast to Social democratic parties, the World Socialist parties do not pursue reforms to capitalism, nor do they seek political office in electoral politics and focus on " progressive " causes, and in contrast to Leninist and Marxist-Leninist Communist parties, do not subscribe to the theory of Vanguardism and Democratic centralism, believing such practices and tactics to be antithetical to the realization of socialism.

Growing popular disenchantment with the government's handling of the economic crisis coupled with the government's inability to secure the support of other parties to implement the necessary reforms to address the crisis forced the Socialist Party Prime Minister José Sócrates to resign, leading to fresh elections on 5 June 2011.

The protesting UCL students ( some of whom were RCG members or supporters ) organised a panel discussion to be held during which representatives from several leftist organisations ( including the RCG's David Yaffe as well as figures from the Green Party of England and Wales, Socialist Appeal and Workers Power ) discussed the reforms then being made by the government and university authorities to higher education in Britain.

Under perestroika, shortly before its collapse, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics under Mikhail Gorbachev implemented reforms to allow multiple candidates, all from the local Communist Party, to run against each other.

For Socialist Democracy, there is an indissoluble tie between social reforms and revolution.

In the late 1980s, as Slovenia was introducing democratic reforms and gradually lifting restrictions on freedom of speech, Janša wrote several articles criticising the Yugoslav People's Army in the Mladina magazine ( published by Alliance of Socialist Youth of Slovenia ).

A member of the Socialist Party, Hoan moved to Milwaukee where he worked closely with Victor Berger, the editor of the Socialist daily the Milwaukee Leader, in trying to persuade the city to adopt radical reforms.