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people's democracy

British

noun

(in Communist ideology) a country or form of government in transition from bourgeois democracy to socialism. In this stage there is more than one class, the largest being the proletariat, led by the Communist Party, which is therefore the dominant power

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In two weeks Soviet-style forced labor had come to the "new people's democracy" of Czechoslovakia.

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As a people's democracy, state power was said to derive from the people as expressed through the Grand National Assembly, nominally, the supreme organ of state power.

From Area Handbook for Romania by Bernier, Donald W.

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