Crock-pot-kin may be a cut above the usual dogshit that calls themselves sovietologists but he still sucks. His first book on Stalin during the Civil war section had him worshiping the ground where the antisemitic Whites stepped and regailed the reader with tales of the Reds excesses and crimes done in the name of winning the Civil war then very quietly in a single sentence at the end of pages of this mention meekly that the whites also did it too.

While he might be more honest about history, he's still a dishonest bourgeois historian.