Sentence examples for Stalinism from inspiring English sources

In conversation he speaks only Russian he is also light-hearted, in contrast with his work, which is stark, unsentimental and serious.The first production he staged after he took over the theatre in 1983 was "Brothers and Sisters", a play based on a novel by Fyodor Abramov which depicts in rich detail and with unabashed exuberance a community trying to rebuild itself under Stalinism.

What could be closer to the people than her beloved Romanian folk tales, and they were full of magic and metaphor?The jaws that bite, the claws that catchShe blossomed during the cultural thaw that followed the end of Stalinism.

Such intransigence makes a certain amount of sense, because any real reform seems more likely to lead to the regime's collapse than its salvation.Kim Jong Il is steeped in North Korean Stalinism.

If it does, France could see Communist ministers back in government for the first time since 1984.Since Mr Hue, a former male nurse and one-time judo champion, took over the party from Georges Marchais three years ago, the Communists have shed much of their old Stalinism.

A one-time Communist, his anti-totalitarian work, "L'Homme Révolté" ("The Rebel"), published in 1951, was remarkably perceptive about the evils of Stalinism.

No other country likely to join the EU in the near future has suffered the trauma of full-strength Stalinism.

It is through Akhmatova's eyes, queuing at the prison gate in the hope of handing in a food parcel to her imprisoned son, that we read the finest poetic depiction of the horrors of Stalinism.

Even though the new law was not applied to their case, they now risk sentences of years in prison, for the crime of telling the truth.Mr Castro has thus confirmed his admirers' unwavering belief in his unwavering addiction, after 40 years of power, to the basics of Stalinism.

Mr Clinton has let it be known that he is keen to visit this final frontier of Stalinism.

Both were unpopular: Waugh as an effete reactionary; Orwell for his unfashionable anti-Stalinism.

He grew up, as he recounts in Achieving Our Country (1998, hereafter AC), "on the anti-communist reformist Left in mid-century" (AC 59), within a circle combining anti-Stalinism with leftist social activism.