List of Stalinists

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This is a list of persons who self-identified as Stalinists or who have advocated the implementation of a Marxist-Leninism state run like Joseph Stalin's. This is because Stalinism is more a term about the political structure created by Stalin, rather than being a fully-formed ideology of its own. Hence those who advocate the implementation of a Stalin-style system prefer to be deemed Marxist-Leninists or more rarely "Marx/Lenin/Stalin" supporters.

This list does not include Soviet political leadership of Stalin's era (obviously, all of them were Stalinists).

[edit] Political figures

Hardial Bains - Founder and leader of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
Jakub Berman – Ally to Stalin, his later dismissal was for "Stalinist-era errors and mistakes."
Bolesław Bierut – Imposed Stalinism in Poland.[1]
Bill Bland – Led the Communist League of Great Britain, a Stalinist group.
Harpal Brar – Former member of the Stalin Society noted for his defence of Stalin's rule.
Tim Buck – came to prominence in Canadian Communism as a supporter of Joseph Stalin.[2]
Vulko Chervenkov – Patterned his regime in Bulgaria on Stalin's and lost favor with the Soviets after Stalin's death.[3][4]
Horloogiyn Choybalsan – Called Mongolia's Stalin[5]
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej – General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party, supported Stalin during Stalin's lifetime, but varied somewhat from Stalinism later.[6]
Rajani Palme Dutt – British communist leader, opposed trend away from Stalinism after Stalin's death
William Z. Foster - Former IWW member and founding member and long time leader of the CPUSA.
Klement Gottwald – Post-war president of Czechoslovakia
Enver Hoxha – Head of state of Albania, broke with the USSR over de-Stalinization.[7][8][9][10]
Harry Haywood - African American Communist delegate to the Comintern, theorist of Black Belt Nation thesis.
Kim Il-sung – The "Great Leader" and "eternal President" of North Korea, he praised Stalin and received support from him[11][12], but after his death pursued Juche.
Mao Zedong - First Chairman of the People's Republic of China and founder of the anti-revisionist movement.
Ludo Martens - Ideological leader of the Workers Party of Belgium and author of Another View of Stalin.
Harry Pollitt - Long-standing General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
Mátyás Rákosi – Hungarian Stalinist leader[13][14]
Maurice Thorez, led French Communist Party in Stalinist direction, supported Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, deserted French Army in 1939 and fled to the USSR
Walter Ulbricht - First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party in the German Democratic Republic.

[edit] Writers

Alexander Fadeyev – Soviet writer who supported the Zhdanov decree and a defender of Stalin's regime in general.[15][16]
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy – He eulogized Stalin and is said to have been the potential Virgil for the Stalinist state.[17]
Paul Eluard - He considered Stalin an inspiration[18] and supported Stalinist executions.
Maxim Gorky - Famous Communist writer, friend and advisor to Stalin and other Soviet leaders.
Jack Hirschman, San Francisco poet laureate
Pablo Neruda, author of Ode to Stalin (English translation available here [19]. Several sources indicate he rejected Stalin later on)

[edit] Academics

Louis Althusser - French CP member, anti-revisionist and anti-humanist philosopher.
D. D. Kosambi - Indian polymath, who has contributed to Mathematics, Statistics and Indian history.