Stalinism

Meaning

1. (uncountable, usually) The Communist philosophies espoused by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
2. (uncountable, usually) The act or state of living in accord with the communist philosophies of Stalin.
3. (uncountable, 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.

Synonyms

totalitarianism

authoritarianism

despotism

dictatorship

monocracy

shogunate

tyranny

Caesarism

absolutism

one-man rule

Translations

stalinisme

Stalinismus

estalinismo

stalinismo

stalinismo

absolutismo

ολοκληρωτισμός

totalitarisme

σταλινισμός

absolutisme

Stalinisme

totalitarisme

Stalinismo

ستالينية

Etymology

From Stalin + -ism.