‘Much of Stalin’s youthful political style derived from that of his master and political exemplar, Lenin.’

How did the Soviet Union react to former prime minister Churchill’s notoriously anticommunist ‘iron curtain’ speech in 1946?

‘The Labour government has agreed to turn Britain into a military and air base for the United States of America to attack the Soviet Union.’

Josef Stalin’s decisive answer to the lies about October 1917 that Trotsky began to peddle straight after Lenin’s death in 1924.

Those who are in the business of fighting for the victory of socialism are duty-bound to make a study of the real Stalin, a giant in the history of our movement.

What is the truth about the commonly rehashed legends of the ‘gulag archipelago’ and of systematic antisemitism during the time of Stalin’s leadership?

Domenico Losurdo is one of the small minority of historians and thinkers who have the courage and candour to swim against the tide.

Ever since Khrushchev, when any revisionist or bourgeois ideologue wants to attack socialism, they first attack Josef Stalin, great architect of Soviet socialism.

Truly, his name and his works will live on through the centuries.

What do we mean when we talk about bureaucracy? How did it manifest in the Soviet Union? What was done by Stalin and the Bolsheviks to counteract it?

‘If Roosevelt makes a real attempt to satisfy the interests of the proletarian class, the capitalists will put another president in his place.’

‘If Roosevelt makes a real attempt to satisfy the interests of the proletarian class, the capitalists will put another president in his place.’

Excerpt from Stalin’s speech to the first all-union conference of leading personnel of socialist industry, February 1931.

Excerpt from Stalin’s speech to the first all-union conference of leading personnel of socialist industry, February 1931.