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  • noun social process of adopting (or being forced to adopt) the policies and practices of Joseph Stalin

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Examples

  • "This is not land reform, this is sanitized stalinisation of the land reform program," he said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • The disfigurement of the North's economy by its 'army-first' policy is rooted in the USSR's reluctance to provide it military aid in the aftermath of the Sino-Soviet split (Kim sided with Mao against Krushchev's de-stalinisation).

    A Very Public Sociologist 2010

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