The Cold War's Loot – On Totalitarianism, the Stalin question, the Soviet archives, and Hannah Arendt by Charles Ducal labour movement Articles by John Ross

Articles by John Ross

Communists have played a key political role

FIDEL CASTRO - Beyond the legend

in the extraordinarily challenging circumstances of global imperialist hegemony

The author is general secretary of the Communist Party of Britain

The Cold War's Loot – On Totalitarianism, the Stalin question, the Soviet archives, and Hannah Arendt by Charles Ducal labour movement Articles by John RossThe Cold War's Loot presents a sustained historiographical and analytical critique of the dominant interpretation of the Stalin era. It argues that the prevailing image of Soviet society under Stalin has been shaped not solely by empirical historical research, but by a complex interplay of ideological conflict, political narrative, and methodological assumption. Over time, distinctions between polemic, testimony, and scholarship have often blurred,