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Stalinist

Stalinist

3 7.7
A person who supports Joseph Stalin or his policies
  • noun
  • /ˈstɑːlɪnɪst/
  • Literature
translation icon : estalinista
  • Only a Stalinist would call a Trotskyist a Trotskyite.

Examples

  • The activities of the Prague linguistic circle were suppressed by totalitarian regimes, first by the Nazis, then by the Stalinists.

    Academic text (2006)

  • Orwell lived long enough to fight fascists in Spain and flee the Stalinists who wanted to kill him.

    Blog text (33)

  • One side becomes the Trotskyist movement, the other's Stalinist movement.

  • I did point out that he was an expatriate Stalinist.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Even the one hardcore Stalinist I know hates US drug policy and sees it as a form of class warfare.

    Blog text (11)

  • Eric Hobsbawm, who died Monday at 95, was the last of the sentimental Stalinists.

    Blog text (21)

  • Putin's willingness to suppress his Russian critics, like that of the Stalinists who had once been in charge of the Kremlin, did not end at the border.

    Academic text (2011)

  • One reads of Leninists, Trotskyites, Maoists, Stalinists, post-Marxists, and even vulgar Marxists, the ultimate condemnation.

    Academic text (1994)

  • At the end of the journey, which coincides with the end of the book, Asnes has accepted all of the premises of a loyal Stalinist: the necessity of a unified worldview as presented by the party and of an impoverished language in the service of a cause, the rejection of democratic pluralistic institutions, and the elimination of critical distance.

    Academic text (2000)

  • He is a proud Stalinist, believing in the principles of Soviet ideology and its historical significance.

Synonyms

Marxist
vsStalinist
43 6.3

A person who supports Karl Marx's ideas about class and social equality

is more focused on state practice and one leader's policies
Communist
vsStalinist
18 4.4

A person who wants businesses and land owned by the community, not by individuals

is more specific, tied to a single leader and Soviet ideology
Marxist-Leninist
vsStalinist
1 8.6

Supporting the communist ideas of Marx and Lenin

is narrower and centered on one leader's principles and Soviet politics

How Supportive

Stalinist
  • Literature
3 7.7
supporter
817 1.0
sympathizer
37 4.8

Surface Forms

Stalinist singular
Stalinists plural

Morphology

Stalinist = Stalin (transparent) = Stalin + ist

Regular derivation from the proper name with the suffix '-ist' producing an agent noun meaning 'supporter or follower of Stalin'.

Etymology

Stalinist as a noun means a person who supports Stalin or his ideas, and the ending -ist works like in artist or tourist, meaning 'a person who'. So a Stalinist is someone who follows or defends Stalin's policies.