I've always read in general terms that Stalin was cautious and subordinated the interests of foreign communist parties to the defensive needs of the USSR. But I was, no exaggeration, extremely surprised at the extent to which he acted as a reactionary or constraining force on communist parties and l ...more
Tries to summarize way to much and is written primarily as a vehicle to criticize Leninist parties so anything outside that scope, like the Iran–Iraq war, isn't going to be getting much attention.
Not only Leninists but conservative believers in conspiracy theories have insisted that the Communist ro