Fact-check: “Stalinism is just a continuation of Leninism”
Verdict: Misleading (78% confidence)
There are real, documented continuities between Leninism and Stalinism — in centralized coercive state power, one-party rule, and institutional structures — but the word 'just' makes the claim misleading. Mainstream scholarly analysis, including peer-reviewed academic sources from Oxford and Cambridge, consistently holds that the Leninist framework 'facilitated but did not determine' Stalinism, and that Stalinism involved a qualitative break — especially in the scale of mass terror, the cult of…
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