: characterized by or expressing opposition to or hostility toward Stalinism
… a leading anti-Stalinist political dissident during the Soviet era.—
Joseph P. Kahn
Joseph P. Kahnanti-Stalinist Marxism
anti-Stalinist
noun
plural anti-Stalinists
He was arrested as part of Stalin's paranoid purge of suspected anti-Stalinists and sentenced to eight years in a labor camp in Siberia.
—Ann Blackman
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His political disillusionment is recounted in this semi-autobiographical novel, which, because of its anti-Stalinist bent, had to be printed in installments by samizdat (a clandestine network of underground publishers).
—Pamela Newton, The Atlantic, 7 July 2024
Characteristically, the magazine was banned in 1948, when Stalinist anti-Americanism was in full force, and was released again during Khrushchev’s anti-Stalinist thaw in the 1950s.
—Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 25 May 2023
In the aftermath of the Berlin blockade and the creation of NATO, followed by the Soviets’ detonation of their first atomic weapon, readers—Americans, especially—might have been eager for an anti-Stalinist bedtime story.
—Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024
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Pamela Newton, The Atlantic, 7 July 2024
Characteristically, the magazine was banned in 1948, when Stalinist anti-Americanism was in full force, and was released again during Khrushchev’s anti-Stalinist thaw in the 1950s.
—Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 25 May 2023
In the aftermath of the Berlin blockade and the creation of NATO, followed by the Soviets’ detonation of their first atomic weapon, readers—Americans, especially—might have been eager for an anti-Stalinist bedtime story.
—Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024
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