Stalinism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The Communist philosophies espoused by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
  2. The act or state of living in accord with the communist philosophies of Stalin.
  3. 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.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

Stalinism Stalinisms

Etymology

From Stalin + -ism.

Related words

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