Definition of Deviationist

1. Noun. An ideological defector from the party line (especially from orthodox communism).

Generic synonyms: Defector, Deserter
Derivative terms: Deviationism

Definition of Deviationist

1. Noun. One who deviates from accepted beliefs or policies, especially from a prescribed form of Communism. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Deviationist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deviationist

deviants
deviate
deviated
deviated nasal septum
deviated septum
deviates
deviating
deviation
deviation ratio
deviation to the left
deviation to the right
deviational nystagmus
deviationism
deviationisms
deviationist (current term)
deviationists
deviations
deviative
deviator
deviatoric
deviators
deviatory
device
device approval
device characteristic
device driver
deviceful
devicefully
devices

Literary usage of Deviationist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Assessing the Soviet Threat: The Early Cold War Years edited by Woodrow J. Kuhns (1999)
"... the Party by eliminating a dangerous deviationist group and to demonstrate to Communists throughout the Soviet orbit the futility of defying the USSR. ..."

2. 54 by Wu Ming (2005)
"Two years later the Cominform called him a ‘deviationist' and expelled him from the Communist Panty. I don't know what he lives on now. ..."

3. Saving the Tsars' Palaces by Christopher Morgan, Irina Orlova (2005)
"At about the same time, Stalin gave Zhdanov a new task - to launch an attack on deviationist thinking and on the errors that had crept in during the war. ..."

4. Assessing the Soviet Threat: The Early Cold War Years edited by Woodrow J. Kuhns (1999)
"... the Party by eliminating a dangerous deviationist group and to demonstrate to Communists throughout the Soviet orbit the futility of defying the USSR. ..."

5. 54 by Wu Ming (2005)
"Two years later the Cominform called him a ‘deviationist' and expelled him from the Communist Panty. I don't know what he lives on now. ..."

6. Saving the Tsars' Palaces by Christopher Morgan, Irina Orlova (2005)
"At about the same time, Stalin gave Zhdanov a new task - to launch an attack on deviationist thinking and on the errors that had crept in during the war. ..."

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