anti-Stalinist

adjective

an·​ti-Sta·​lin·​ist ˌan-tē-ˈstä-lə-nist 

-ˈsta-, 

ˌan-tī- 

: characterized by or expressing opposition to or hostility toward Stalinism

… a leading anti-Stalinist political dissident during the Soviet era.

—Joseph P. Kahn

anti-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

Examples of anti-Stalinist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

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

Word History

First Known Use

1937, in the meaning defined above