Neo-Stalinism's a term that describes rehabilitation and glorification of Joseph Stalin, restoration of Stalinist policies, or a moderated Stalinist state, without large-scale repressions but with persecution of political opponents and total control of all political activities in the country American historian Henry Reichman, critical of the usage of "Stalinism" and "neo-Stalinism" as vacuous labels, writes that "in scholarly usage 'Stalinism' describes here a movement, there an economic, politi… (More on Neo-stalinism)