Legislatures in communist states


The legislatures of communist states included:
Due to their vanguard status, Communist parties were either the sole party represented in these legislatures, or held permanent majorities.
The legislatures were vested with great lawmaking powers on paper, and in most cases all other government institutions were nominally subordinated to them. In practice, the doctrine of democratic centralism resulted in the legislatures being rubber stamps which held very little real power. They did little more than rubber stamp decisions already made at the highest levels of the Communist parties.