Societies that are geared toward the most stringent orthodoxy frequently also are ruled by the most decadent: this applies to all cultures and religions, including presumably the non-religious as today's North Korea or yesteryear's Stalinist Soviet Union exemplify.
Fortunately, none wants to return to the Stalinist past.
They included Gide, Auden, Isherwood, Cocteau and Gertrude Stein.As a then very impressionable youth, he veered to the Stalinist left.
In August 1952 several major Yiddish authors fell victim to the Stalinist purges.
With his essay "Monument to a Scholarly Error" (1930), he finally bowed to the Stalinist authorities' displeasure with Formalism.
For a time after the creation of the Chinese communist state in 1949, Mao Zedong attempted to conform to the Stalinist model of "building socialism".
Though these trials could not be compared to the Stalinist show trials, they kept discontent among the intellectuals simmering, even if the mass of the population was indifferent.
Prior to the Stalinist constitution, Hungary did not have a formal written constitution.
After denouncing Stalinism so vehemently in his speech, Khrushchev could not regress to the Stalinist position by forcing more Russians into the Polish leadership.
