Communist one-party state proclaimed in January 1946 (as the People's Republic of Albania, renamed People's Socialist Republic in 1976) under Enver Hoxha, the most isolationist and hard-line Stalinist regime in the Eastern Bloc, breaking with the USSR (1961) and then China (1978).
The communist system collapsed in 1990-91 amid mass unrest; multi-party elections were held in 1991, ending single-party rule.
Covers the full communist era under Hoxha through its collapse.