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Recent Examples of Stalinism
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.
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Dina Khapaeva, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2025
This critique involved not just intellectuals on the left, but also famous American realists who played a key part in rallying U.S. liberal opinion to resist Nazism and Stalinism.
—Anatol Lieven, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
In English class, some students might read Animal Farm as an allegory for Stalinism, while others see it as a story about talking animals.
—Russell Shaw, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2024
Again, Breaking With Trump Caroline Ellison, Star Witness in FTX Case, Should Receive Lenient Sentence, Prosecutors Signal
Trumpism, Stalinism and the Tariff Debate
An 8-Year-Old Ohio Girl Takes a Solo Drive to Target in Family’s SUV
Trump and Other Presidents Embrace Golf.
—New York Times, 17 Sep. 2024
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
And sometimes, this language which is used by the authorities could be compared with the language of Stalinism, the situation of the late 1940s and early 1950s, in terms of rhetoric, the absurdity of this rhetoric, and the absurdity of repressions.
—Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 11 Jan. 2024
Dina Khapaeva, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2025
This critique involved not just intellectuals on the left, but also famous American realists who played a key part in rallying U.S. liberal opinion to resist Nazism and Stalinism.
—Anatol Lieven, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
In English class, some students might read Animal Farm as an allegory for Stalinism, while others see it as a story about talking animals.
—Russell Shaw, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2024
Again, Breaking With Trump Caroline Ellison, Star Witness in FTX Case, Should Receive Lenient Sentence, Prosecutors Signal
Trumpism, Stalinism and the Tariff Debate
An 8-Year-Old Ohio Girl Takes a Solo Drive to Target in Family’s SUV
Trump and Other Presidents Embrace Golf.
—New York Times, 17 Sep. 2024
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
And sometimes, this language which is used by the authorities could be compared with the language of Stalinism, the situation of the late 1940s and early 1950s, in terms of rhetoric, the absurdity of this rhetoric, and the absurdity of repressions.
—Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 11 Jan. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Stalinism
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One America, with coastal elites in places like New York City and Los Angeles, who continue to steamroll towards full-on Marxism, and another with ordinary, hard-working Americans across the country, like here in the great state of Alaska, who don’t embrace this extremism.—
Mike Dunleavy,
New York Daily News,
14 July 2025
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What does Marxism have to do with the policy positions of a Socialist?—
Matt Fleming,
Oc Register,
13 July 2025
Noun
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The kindergarten Leninism espoused by the DSA’s current leadership does not.—
Harper's Magazine,
Harper's Magazine,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Fear of bolshevism blended with a long-standing hostility toward certain classes of immigrants.—
Adam Hochschild,
The New Yorker,
4 Nov. 2019
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