Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. People''s Republic, also especially in other languages Popular Republic, is a title that has often been used by Marxist-Leninist governments to describe their state. The motivation for using this term lies in the claim that Marxist-Leninists govern in accordance with the interests of the vast majority of the people, and, as such, a Marxist-Leninist republic is a people''s republic. Many of these countries also called themselves socialist states in their constitutions; Albania, for instance, used both terms, "socialist" and "people''s," in its official name from 1976 to 1991. Opponents[who?] of Marxism-Leninism argue that the name "people''s republic" is merely used for propaganda purposes. In the West, countries governed by Marxist-Leninists are referred to as "Communist states," though they never actually used this name for themselves and used the term countries of people''s democracy.