re-Stalinization
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Re-Stalinization is the partial reversal of de-Stalinization: a process of quietly rehabilitating Stalin's image, suppressing critical discussion of Stalin-era repression, and re-deploying Stalinist symbolism. It first emerged under Brezhnev from 1965 onward, proceeding through selective praise of Stalin's wartime leadership and censorship of repression literature, and was suspended during Gorbachev's perestroika. After Vladimir Putin came to power in the 2000s, a state-backed programme of re-Stalinization resumed, using textbooks, media, cinema, and monuments to recast Stalin as a 'strong leader.'
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- Wikipedia (RU) Russian Wikipedia: 'Частью системы идеологического свёртывания оттепели был процесс «ресталинизации» — подспудной реабилитации Сталина.' First signal: Brezhnev mentioned Stalin by name at the Kremlin on 8 May 1965 to applause. By late 1969 Suslov organized a rehabilitation campaign for Stalin's 90th birthday. Under Andropov, references to repression were removed from school textbooks; under Chernenko, renaming Volgograd to Stalingrad was discussed.
- Wikipedia (EN) English Wikipedia: 'Russia under Vladimir Putin underwent an extensive state-backed programme of Re-Stalinization; through mass media, cinema, academia, educational institutions, military propaganda and historiography.' Duma's 2014 'memory law' criminalized comparisons between Nazism and Stalinism.
- meduza.io Meduza (Alexey Uvarov): Traces creeping re-Stalinization from Brezhnev through Andropov and Chernenko to Putin, detailing how criticism of Stalin was silenced after 1964 and how the state has re-deployed Stalin's image under Putin.
- hoover.org Hoover Institution (Paul Gregory): 'Time is on the side of re-Stalinization.' Documents the Kremlin's campaign to portray Stalin as 'harsh but fair,' the return of the Stalin-era national anthem, erecting monuments, and polling showing declining recognition of Stalin as a 'brutal tyrant.'