de-Stalinize

de-Stalinise

vb (tr)

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) politics to eliminate the influence of Stalin from

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This challenge to Kim's rule joined similar ambitions to de-Stalinize communist administrations in Hungary and Poland.

Crisis in North Korea: The Failure of De-Stalinization, 1956

Did the Kennedy-McNamara nuclear roulette over Cuba help Khrushchev to de-Stalinize, or did it help Brezhnev to overthrow Khrushchev?

Minority report

By repudiating the fraudulent charges on which Bukharin was tried and condemned to death by Stalin at the 1938 Moscow trial, Gorbachev has linked his campaign to de-Stalinize the Soviet system to an alternative historical model of socialism initiated by Lenin and elaborated by Bukharin.