Stalinism

Noun

Stalinism (usually uncountable, plural Stalinisms)

1. (usually) The Communist philosophies espoused by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
2. (usually) The act or state of living in accord with the communist philosophies of Stalin.
3. (usually) 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.
   • 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.c. 1930 - 1939, Leon Trotsky, 1:14 from the start, in Trotsky Speech In Mexico (1930-1939), British Pathé