Stalinism

Definition

The Communist philosophies espoused by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.

Etymology

From Stalin + -ism.

Example Sentences

• "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."