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5 unusual facts about Stalinism


Carlton, County Durham

It was here that Orwell finished his anti-Stalinist allegory Animal Farm before leaving for France as a war correspondent in 1945.

Davita's Harp

the secular fundamentalism represented by Marxism, Stalinism, and communism, and the religious fundamentalism of the extreme right in my own Jewish tradition, and how those two fundamentalisms deeply hurt individuals profoundly committed to them, and what those individuals do in the wake of that pain.

Greek Operation of NKVD

Under Stalinism, the USSR considered some nations to be "progressive" and some others to be "reactionary".

Stalinism

The core principle of council communism is that the government and the economy should be managed by workers' councils composed of delegates elected at workplaces and recallable at any moment.

Wolfgang Harich

Harich was looking for a "third way" between Stalinism and apitalism, he wanted a "humanistic socialism" in a reunified Germany.


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Armando Hart

In January 2005, Armando Hart wrote an article on Joseph Stalin, in which he denounced the ideas of Stalinism and its practice, while defending the ideas of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Fidel Castro, and Leon Trotsky.

Carl Winberg

In the 1930s, Winberg was active in the Communist opposition led by Karl Kilbom, independent from Moscow and opposing Stalinism.

Committee for Cultural Freedom

Many American far left-wing intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s were Trotskyists who believed in democracy and were opposed to the totalitarianism advocated by Joseph Stalin and Stalinism.

Corneliu Coposu

Vladimir Tismăneanu, Stalinism pentru eternitate, Polirom, Iaşi, 2005 ISBN 973-681-899-3 (translation of Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2003, ISBN 0-520-23747-1)

Jassy–Kishinev Offensive

Vladimir Tismăneanu, Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2003, p.

Joshua Strawn

Though lacking in many overt references, Midnight of the Century alluded to superstition and religion in almost every song, encompassing all three major monotheisms as well as political superstitions like Stalinism and fascism.

Mr. Freedom

The Freedom mission is complicated by the machinations of communist foes — the Stalinist Moujik Man and the ferocious Maoist Red China Man (portrayed as a giant inflatable dragon).

Nadezhda Mandelstam

She wrote two memoirs about their lives together and the repressive Stalinist regime: Hope Against Hope (1970) and Hope Abandoned (1974), both first published in the West in English, translated by Max Hayward.

North Vietnam

North Vietnam refused to establish diplomatic relations with the non-aligned government of Josip Broz Tito in Yugoslavia and repeatedly denounced his regime as "revisionist" for rejecting Stalinism.

Polish Biographical Dictionary

This reference work has been published in Kraków since 1935, although publication was suspended during Poland's World War II occupation by Nazi Germany and during the Stalinist period.

Porkkala

This may be attributed to the process of Finlandization and to technological progress making coastal artillery obsolete, but the renunciation of Stalinism by the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev and the fact that Finland had undertaken to adopt neutrality and so remain out of NATO were also important contributing factors.

Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University

Oleg Khlevniuk is the known specialist on political history of Stalinism, doctor of historical sciences, professor of the Moscow state university named after Michael Lomonosov (Russia).


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