Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin

Together with a group of Communist sympathisers who nonetheless abhorred the rule of Joseph Stalin (who included her current lover, Philip Rahv ), MMC issued a new first, resurrected issue of the defunct left-wing literary...

HA 's On Revolution explored the unfolding of the American and the French Revolutions, and the nature of Marxist theory, its translation into revolutionary action, and its distortion under Stalin into totalitarianism.

Her research for this novel touched on many different nineteenth-century cultures. She read a study of French prostitutes and sex advice for young American couples. She read about dictators: accounts of Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos

She observes that she can write at first hand about most of the men who—to-day—are making war, or struggling to prevent it in three continents. The dominant figures of Hitler and Stalin are flanked...

The implicit message of these poems is praise of Stalin , but they did nothing to soften him towards her.

RF published when Mussolini had conquered and exiled Haile Selassie , but before Queen Wilhelmina had fled from home before the invading Nazis , or Russia had switched sides and entered the war against Germany...

Of Martha's twin quests, that for emotional fulfilment brings her more pain and loss than pleasure, and that for a viable political creed is no more fruitful. She becomes a Communist, and is later dismayed...

The manifesto masks its serious political content with a certain tongue-in-cheek tone: We do not like the way Mussolini has organised his colonial empire. / We do not like the way Hitler has managed his...

HA arranges her discussion under three headings: anti-Semitism, imperialism, and totalitarianism. Together they compose a bleak picture of current trends: the decline of nation-states and of traditional class alliances, and the rise of anti-Semitism, Nazism

For Meanjin she wrote about the current falling-out in Paris between Camus (who had taken an anti-Stalinist line in L'Homme révolté) and Sartre . For Stead neither writer was a good enough Communist...