The book to read on this is Domenico Losurdo's "Stalin, history and critique of a black legend".
An excellent recommendation and essential reading imo. So much red scare propaganda is based on the Stalin bad narrative and this book dismantles that narrative with actual, material evidence. Something that Khrushchev and the anti-communist propagandists never offered.
It's a very special book, it also only uses contradictions among anti-communist sources to debunk the narratives. Sources like Arendt, Conquest, even Hitler and Goebbels.
An excellent recommendation and essential reading imo. So much red scare propaganda is based on the Stalin bad narrative and this book dismantles that narrative with actual, material evidence. Something that Khrushchev and the anti-communist propagandists never offered.
It's a very special book, it also only uses contradictions among anti-communist sources to debunk the narratives. Sources like Arendt, Conquest, even Hitler and Goebbels.