1.  Nu advanced the ingenious suggestion that instead of the existing Commonwealth structure there should be a federation of Socialist states.

2.  Soviet experience has also helped to shape the role of labour unions in socialist states elsewhere.

3.  They intend to build a socialist state, and the revolution which they have begun is irreversible.

4.  ...an economically healthy socialist state.

5.  Ethiopia was declared a socialist state.

6.  The phrase in the preamble to the East German Constitution describing the country as a socialist state of workers and peasants was revoked.

7.  A socialist state was proclaimed one year later.

8.  As democratic forces swept the former socialist state, it began to disintegrate with the conflict in Kosovo only the latest chapter in the deadly process.

9.  At issue in those meetings are the number of people Fidel Castro will allow out of his decomposing socialist state.