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stalinism
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun stalinism has 1 sense
- stalinism(n = noun.group) absolutism, authoritarianism, caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, totalitarianism, tyranny - a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.); Array is a kind of autarchy, autocracy
has particulars: police state
Derived form noun stalinist1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
stalinism, n.
1 the policies followed by Stalin in the government of the USSR, esp. centralization, totalitarianism, and the pursuit of socialism.
2 any rigid centralized authoritarian form of socialism.
1 the policies followed by Stalin in the government of the USSR, esp. centralization, totalitarianism, and the pursuit of socialism.
2 any rigid centralized authoritarian form of socialism.
Derivative
Stalinist n.
Etymology
J. V. Stalin (Dzhugashvili), Soviet statesman d. 1953
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