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Stalinism (usually uncountable, plural Stalinisms)
- 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.
- c. 1930 - 1939, Leon Trotsky, 1:14 from the start, in Trotsky Speech In Mexico (1930-1939), British Pathé:
- There are no crime[s] in history more terrible than the Moscow Trials of Zinoviev-Kamenev, and the- of Pyatakov-Radek. These trials developed not from communism, not from socialism, but from Stalinism: that is from the irresponsible despotism of the bureaucracy over the people.
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Communist philosophies espoused by Josef Stalin
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