Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process of discrediting and eliminating the political policies, methods, and personal image of Joseph Stalin.
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- noun The process, begun by Nikita Khrushchev, of
discrediting and thenreforming the policies of Joseph Stalin
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- noun social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor
Etymologies
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de- + Stalin + -ization
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Perfect = courageously calling out union-busters, supporting EFCA, pulling out of Afghanistan and Iraq, boldly championing LGBT rights and shaming the bigots, ending torture, debushification on par with denazification/Kruschev's destalinization.
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During the period of destalinization Stalin Peak in the Pamirs, the highest point in the USSR, was renamed Communism Peak.
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But the way in which names were changed in the period of destalinization differed significantly from the reversion to tsarist names in the period of glasnost and perestroika.
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