Synonyms of Stalinism

Stalinism

noun

as in Marxism

Related Words

• Marxism
• Communism
• Leninism
• bolshevism
• Sovietism
• collectivism
• liberalism
• leftism
• fascism
• Nazism
• dictatorship
• totalitarianism
• tyranny
• authoritarianism
• autocracy
• radicalism
• despotism
• absolutism
• Caesarism
• totalism
• autarchy
• Big Brother
• Big Brotherism
• czarism

Dissimilar Words

• democracy
• freedom
• self-government
• self-governance
• self-rule
• autonomy
• sovereignty
• self-determination

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Stalinism

Like Stalinism or the Khmer Rouge, anti-Zionism represents a wrong turn for the left. — Adam Louis-Klein, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026

Until Hoxha's break with Nikita Khrushchev's USSR, after the abjuration of Stalinism, Sazan was in Soviet hands, a thorn in the side of the West, a base for 12 Whiskey-class submarines and of chemical-biological weapons plants. — Marzio G. Mian, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026

The title comes from a miniature story by the Soviet writer Daniil Kharms, who wrote absurdist literature under Stalinism and suffered as a result. — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 18 May 2026

In these respects, apart from the harlequin excesses of his Stalinism, Cowley is terrifically sound. — Vince Passaro, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025

Medieval threat to democracy The rhetoric of absolving Stalinism goes hand in hand with popularizing the state’s version of the Russian Middle Ages through public media channels. — Dina Khapaeva, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2025

Orwell would spend the rest of his life trying to clarify that in his time the left meant both idealists committed to human rights, equality, and justice and supporters of a Stalinism that was the antithesis of all those things. — Rebecca Solnit february 23, Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2024