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

The author is general secretary of the Communist Party of Britain

both were published in English and German

FIDEL CASTRO - Beyond the legend

socialist party organiser and founder of the working class Citizen Army he was a key leader of the 1916 Rising and was executed by the British

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,