de-Stalinizev.
/diːˈstɑːlɪnʌɪz/ intransitive. To counteract the excesses of Stalinism or the influence of Stalin, as by reversing or amending his policies, removing monuments to him, and renaming places named in his honour; also transitive, to affect in some way by.
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1960 Guardian 20 Apr. 8/5 Russia decided to de-Stalinize in design.
Derivatives
de-Staliniˈzation n.
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1957 Economist 28 Sept. 1013 The echoes of destalinisation and Hungary have reverberated among the Apennines.
1962 Times 6 Feb. 15/1 The so-called de-Stalinization policy.
1965 Spectator 5 Mar. 285/1 This giant-size statue of Stalin, stationed at the end of the Volga Don Canal in Volgograd, was demolished in the wake of destalinisation.
de-ˈStalinized adj.
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1959 Times 7 Feb. 7/6 The GUM department store..where..escalators carry hopeful consumers through six floors of de-Stalinized delight.
de-ˈStalinizer n.
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1962 Listener 8 Mar. 404/1 Mr Barak's real offence was to be..too keen a de-Stalinizer in Czechoslovakia itself.
de-ˈStalinizing n.
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1963 Daily Tel. 23 Sept. 12/2 The dismissal of the Prime Minister..and other ‘de-Stalinising’ changes.
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