The term all-people's state was introduced in the Soviet Union when the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev. It denoted that the Soviet Union had moved away from the dictatorship of the proletariat to a new all-people's state since the exploitative classes had been vanquished. The working class (known as the proletariat in Marxist discourse) was no longer to be the ruling class of the state alone, and all social groups were to be given equal representation in the state.^[1] This term was later dropped during Leonid Brezhnev's leadership of the CPSU.^[2]

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