National Democracy

민족민주주의

A Marxist-Leninist concept developed by the Soviet Union in the late 1950s that framed post-colonial Third World states as transitional formations capable of bypassing capitalism on the path to socialism. A special group led by Karen Brutents in the CPSU Central Committee's International Department drafted the framework, which was adopted as official line at the 1960 Moscow International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties. National democracy comprised three stages (national liberation struggle, national democratic revolution, and national democratic state) and was closely tied to the concepts of 'non-capitalist development' and 'socialist orientation,' providing the theoretical foundation for Soviet Third World foreign and aid policy.