neo-Stalinistadj.n.

1944 Washington Post 24 Dec. 3 b/4 Ruth Fischer..continues to talk about ‘the numerous Stalinist, neo-Stalinist and Stalin-influenced groups’.

1954 World Politics 7 59 The elements of the Stalin ideological heritage most vulnerable to neo-Stalinist modification or rejection would be various accretions of more recent years.

1960 Guardian 28 July 9/7 This is also the neo-Stalinist view in China.

1971 Russ. Rev. 30 36 Volumes 50 and 51..appeared in 1964 and 1965—a time when Khrushchev was still in power or only just out of it, before the chill neo-Stalinist breezes had begun to blow in earnest.

1990 Time 30 Apr. 223/1 The pilgrims move slowly past Ho's body lying on a glass-enclosed platform in the neo-Stalinist marble mausoleum.

1948 Plain Talk Aug. 14/2 The Neo-Stalinists, Zhdanov and Malenkov..set out on their mad course of expansion.

1958 Newark (Ohio) Advocate 5 May 22/2 Pospelov's fellow neo-Stalinist, Mihail Suslov.

1960 Guardian 28 July 9/6 The neo-Stalinists..are now prepared to make their stand known in public.

1973 A. Mann Tiara i. 3 Things are beginning to simmer again in Moscow, and the neo-Stalinists or hard-liners..have recovered a good deal of influence.

1998 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 70 434 The upheaval of 1991..in no way alters the historical fact of totalitarian rule under Stalin and the neo-Stalinists.