Sta·lin·ism

(stä′lə-nĭz′əm)

The bureaucratic, authoritarian exercise of state power and mechanistic application of Marxist-Leninist principles associated with Stalin.

Sta′lin·ist adj. & n.

Sta′lin·ize′ v.

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Stalinism

(ˈstɑːlɪˌnɪzəm)

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the theory and form of government associated with Stalin: a variant of Marxism-Leninism characterized by totalitarianism, rigid bureaucracy, and loyalty to the state

ˈStalinist n, adj

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Sta•lin•ism

(ˈstɑ ləˌnɪz əm)

n.

the principles and practice of communism associated with Stalin, characterized by the extreme suppression of opposition, totalitarian rule, and an aggressive foreign policy.

[1925–30]

Sta′lin•ist, n., adj.

Stalinism

the communistic theories and practices developed by Joseph Stalin from Marxism and Leninism, especially his development of the cult of the individual with himself at its center, his advocacy of national revolution, and his extensive use of secret police and slave-labor camps to reduce opposition. — Stalinist, n., adj. — Stalinistic, adj.

Stalinism

The form of communist theory or practice associated with Joseph Stalin, typified by totalitarianism.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

Stalinism - a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)

dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, totalitarianism, tyranny, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, absolutism

autocracy, autarchy - a political system governed by a single individual

police state - a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police)

Translations

Stalinismus

stalinismo

estalinismo

stalinismi

stalinisme

staljinizam

sztálinizmus

stalinismo

stalinismo

сталинизм

Stalinism

[ˈstɑːlɪnɪzəm] N → estalinismo m

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Stalinism

[ˈstɑːlɪˌnɪzəm] n → stalinismo

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They proceed from post-war to Stalinism, to real existing socialism, to the end and beyond.

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For Lifshitz, this "aesthetic" Marxist subjectivity would serve as a guiding principle for articulating effective philosophical action in the context of the tragic reality of the rise of Stalinism out of the Russian Revolution.

Mikhail Lifshitz and the Dialectical Politics of Art in the USSR

Now that Stalinism and Maoism are passe, anti-Zionism has become the latest way to excuse massacres, now rechristened "resistance," in the name of history.

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STRANGE how each of those Soviet Bloc countries considered that the terms Communism, Marxism, Trotskyism and Stalinism were so toxic, that they all disguised their policies within more acceptable pseudonyms.

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Scholarship on the collective memory of Stalinism in contemporary Russia has been remarkably fruitful since taking off in the early 2000s.

Stalinist Crimes and the Ethics of Memory

It was Trotsky's ability to write and, of course, to conceptualise Stalinism that left such a deep imprint in the study of the Russia Revolution.

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Aaron Barratt, an S2 pupil at St Aidan's High School in Wishaw, Lanarkshire, started a petition and claimed the authority's actions were Stalinism.

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It hints of Stalinism to try and silence one side of a debate on a matter of enormous public importance - the jury's still out on claimed global warming, whether anthropogenic or natural.

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