Radical Reprint: Stalin's 'left' turn

Radical Reprint: Stalin's 'left' turn

With the Second World War coming to its conclusion it naturally left an undignified political scramble in its wake ~ Rob Ray ~ As summer arrived in June 1945 both the USSR and the Allies, now let off the hook for their wartime alliance, began the long process of competitive propagandising that came to be known as the Cold War. For much of the British left, still tied to the Communist Party of Great Britain and its Soviet inclinations (a situatio…