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DE-STALINIZATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does de-Stalinization mean?
• DE-STALINIZATION (noun)
The noun DE-STALINIZATION has 1 sense:
1. social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor
Familiarity information: DE-STALINIZATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
de-Stalinisation; de-Stalinization; destalinisation; destalinization
Context example:
his statue was demolished as part of destalinization
Hypernyms ("de-Stalinization" is a kind of...):
social process (a process involved in the formation of groups of persons)
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