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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The bureaucratic, authoritarian exercise of state power and mechanistic application of Marxist-Leninist principles associated with Stalin.
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- noun The
Communist philosophies espoused by Soviet Leader Josef Stalin. - noun The act or state of living in accord with the communist philosophies of Stalin.
- noun
Totalitarianism , by extension from the rigid governing methods of Stalin.
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- noun a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
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Examples
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No. The secret of Stalinism is that both insulting the leader, and insulting his enemies is equally dangerous.
At Last, Something We Can All Believe In « Gerry Canavan 2010
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The reference to Stalinism is a bit off in my opinion.
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The blind spot on the liberal-left with regard to the moral implications of Stalinism is still a tremendously embarrassing part of their intellectual history.
Matthew Yglesias » Commerce Cabinet Crisis X: Henry Wallace 2009
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What you call Stalinism is the natural progression FJ said ... jm,
FJ's Blog 2009
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What you call Stalinism is the natural progression FJ said ... jm,
FJ's Blog 2009
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Stalinism is the rule of the Steel Plant Factory Union Boss.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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Stalinism, which is a personalization of the Soviet regime during one era, and then to compare it with Nazism, which was the ideology of
Robert Gellately: Remembering the Nazi-Soviet Pact After Seventy Years 2009
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Gray bases his assessment of the two works he reviews on the argument that there is some essential linkage between Leninism and Stalinism, which is a separate debate and not one I want to resurrect here.
Dave's Part 2009
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Well the response to that kind of Stalinism is to get rid of the filibuster and move to a majority voting requirement.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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The Obama hero worship practiced by so many surely cannot be denied, even by the most ardent detractors who instead refer to it as a "cult of personality" (a perverse reference to Stalinism which is cynically invoked with full awareness of its comparative inaccuracy).
Stuart Whatley: Obama in the Era of Heroes and Fallen Angels 2009
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