How to Use Stalinism in a Sentence
Stalinism
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Like Stalinism or the Khmer Rouge, anti-Zionism represents a wrong turn for the left.
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Adam Louis-Klein,
The Atlantic,
18 June 2026
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In these respects, apart from the harlequin excesses of his Stalinism, Cowley is terrifically sound.
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Vince Passaro,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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The title comes from a miniature story by the Soviet writer Daniil Kharms, who wrote absurdist literature under Stalinism and suffered as a result.
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Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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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.
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Marzio G. Mian,
Vanity Fair,
16 June 2026
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