Eighty years ago, many American intellectuals, particularly those who regarded themselves as the vanguard of progressivism, were devout Stalinists. That is, they believed—and believed ...

Daniel Taylor reveals the real record and history of a tradition that masqueraded as socialism, but represented the opposite, in an article written for Australia's Red Flag. STALINISM IS experiencing ...

An article from Views & Comments, the publication of the Libertarian League, about the Independent Socialist League's analysis of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death. In spite of serious ideological ...

Historians and international relations scholars use the terms “Stalinism” and “Stalinist” to distinguish the Soviet communist regime under Joseph Stalin from communist leaders in other periods of ...

Visitors leaving Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport today can purchase a box of chocolates in the duty-free shop with a replica of a poster from the 1930s on the back, in which Stalin grasps ...

The memory of Stalinism in contemporary Russia raises problems which are painful and sensitive. There is a vast amount of pro-Stalinist literature on the bookstalls: fiction, journalism and ...

This article was originally written to refute lies about the history of 20th century revolutionary movements peddled by the Trotskyists of the Spartacus League. This article was originally written to ...

Tismaneanu's book is less a political history of communism than it is a thorough account of leadership battles in the Romanian Communist Party from its origins at the turn of the nineteenth century to ...

On an article published August 28, “Syriza, pseudo-left maneuver ahead of Greek elections,” a reader posted a comment asking the WSWS to explain its differences with the Communist Party of Greece (KKE ...