Stalinism
Meanings
noun
- The Communist philosophies espoused by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
- The act or state of living in accord with the communist philosophies of Stalin.
- The political system that put into practice — by means of governance, implementing policies, enforcing laws, etc. — the communist philosophical theory of Stalin in the Soviet Union from the 1920s and in the Soviet satellite states from the late 1940s to Stalin's death in 1953.
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Etymology
From Stalin + -ism.
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