After the end of Stalinist period in 1956 he was pardoned and set free.

Throughout the Stalinist period, most Soviet workers had been paid for their work based on a piece-rate system.

Some 15 million people were sent off to the prison camps during the height of the Stalinist period.

Kossak escaped to the West, but returned to Poland in 1957, after the end of the Stalinist period.

The apologetic literature is often little more than a parody of the Stalinist period.

(In the Stalinist period, nothing happened in the Soviet world of vanguard or underground art.)

By far the largest number of persecutions took place in the Stalinist period of the 50's.

During the most oppressive Stalinist period, terror, justified by the necessity to eliminate the reactionary subversion, was widespread.

Only one of the 1 500 death sentences carried out in Poland during the Stalinist period involved a common criminal.

Yet paradoxically Makarenko's educational theories were to be taken up, approved, and widely publicized in the Stalinist period.