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Leninist-Stalinist
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English
Adjective
en historical Stalinist.
Characteristic of both Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin.
Usage notes
Used in the first sense mostly as a politically-charged, positively-connoted, and endonymous term by Soviet Communist Party members in political speeches and documents from the Stalin era until de-Stalinization.
Used in the second sense mostly in academic literature meant to emphasize the continuity between Lenin and Stalin (either generally or regarding a specific matter).