Stalinist
Example Sentences
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Unlike the Stalinist Soviet planners who built centrally planned industries, the Chinese planners are focusing on creating markets in designated sectors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
Prokofiev spent years in Paris and in the U.S. as a modernist, but ultimately Mother Russia was too strong of a pull, and he returned despite the artistic restrictions of Stalinist Russia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025
Some see it as a throwback to the Stalinist era, when abortion was outlawed in 1936, and women ending unwanted pregnancies often turned to illegal and unsafe procedures.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
But by the time of Mikhailov’s youth, socialist realism had become the only permitted style, and imagery of the revolution had decayed into Stalinist kitsch.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
Kosovar intellectuals were watching Albanian TV and reading Albanian papers even throughout the Stalinist period of Enver Hoxha, the long time Albanian dictator.
From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin
