˜yÐÄvlog

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de-Stalinize

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[ dee-stah-luh-nahyz, -stal-uh- ]

verb (used without object)

de-Stalinized, de-Stalinizing.
  1. (of a Communist country) to engage in de-Stalinization.


verb (used with object)

de-Stalinized, de-Stalinizing.
  1. to subject to de-Stalinization.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of de-Stalinize1

First recorded in 1955–60; de- + Stalin + -ize
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Example Sentences

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Kurkov was haunted by a question: Why did Khrushchev’s “thaw,†his efforts to de-Stalinize the Soviet Union, end in such colossal failure, with the ascent of the reactionary Leonid Brezhnev, who came to power in 1964 after his predecessor was deposed in a bloodless coup?

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The goal was to "de-Stalinize" the Soviet Union, to resume Khrushchev's liberalization in the late 1950s.

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