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n. - Social process of neutralizing the influence of a Russian czar by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor.

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  • But in spite of the wave of "de-Stalinisation" and the denunciations of the
  • Writing just as official "de-Stalinisation" was spreading across Russia and Eastern Europe, Isaac Deutscher was sure that Trotsky would be vindicated by history and...
  • This isn't just about the Charity Commission's barely disguised agenda of class warfare, loathesome though that is - it's about the need for a thorough...
  • From 1960, he directed an average of one a year, going as far into satire as was permitted, despite the process of de-Stalinisation.
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