The people's republican state is a type of socialist state with a republican

constitution. Although the term initially became associated with populist movements
in the 19th century such as the German V�lkisch movement and the Narodniks in
Russia, it is now associated to communist states. A number of the short-lived
communist states which formed during World War I and its aftermath called
themselves people's republics. Many of these sprang up in the territory of the
former Russian Empire following the October Revolution.[43][44][45][46][47]

Additional people's republics emerged following the Allied victory in World War II,
mainly within the Soviet Union's Eastern Bloc.[48][49][50][51][52][53][54] In Asia,
China became a people's republic following the Chinese Communist Revolution[55] and
North Korea also became a people's republic.[56]

During the 1960s, Romania and Yugoslavia ceased to use the term people's republic
in their official name, replacing it with the term socialist republic as a mark of
their ongoing political development. Czechoslovakia also added the term socialist
republic into its name during this period. It had become a people's republic in
1948, but the country had not used that term in its official name. Albania used
both ter.ms in its official name from 1976 to 1991