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What historical state operated most closely to Marx's Marxism?

(The redundant title is meant to differentiate Marx's idea of a communist state from later governments which called themselves Marxist.)
gpt
In the communist utopia there is no state.  To Marx the state was an artifact of class struggle.  The state was needed for one class to keep control of the means of production from another class.  But after the revolution there would be no classes thus there would be no state.  Marx does say that there will need to be a dictatorship of the proletariat as a transition from capitalism to communism.  However he is vague on any details here.  The section discussing this in the Communist Manifesto is less then a page.  The one place that Marx does talk about a communist state is in the pamphlet the Civil War in France which discusses the Paris Commune.  Marx approved of the aim of the commune but criticized them for not taking drastic enough actions to defend themselves.  Marx's criticism would be used by Lenin to justify the Red Terror in Russia.