The byproducts of Stalinism.
The purges and witch-hunts conducted by Andropov as head of the KGB, and the endless expansionism embodied by the Brezhnev Doctrine, were expressions of Stalinism, even if it went by a different name.
The refusal to abide by the protocols of the Helsinki Accords, persecuting political dissidents and/or refuseniks like Natan Sharansky and Andrei Sakharov, artistic/literary giants like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, etc., these were all manifestations of a condition known as Leninsim/Stalinism, which the Soviet Union never completely abandoned.
"The refusal to abide by the protocols of the Helsinki Accords, persecuting political dissidents and/or refuseniks like Natan Sharansky and Andrei Sakharov, artistic/literary giants like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, etc., these were all manifestations of a condition known as Leninsim/Stalinism, which the Soviet Union never completely abandoned."
I agree and please excuse me for speaking in a narrow context. Your usage of the term is more correct than mine in terms of "general usage", which is the correct criteria for language. I should've made my point in another way.