electoral field. While being careful not to criticise the theoretical legacy of sialnism. inev nave been torced ever more to distance themselves from the erosser crimes denial of rights to political dissidents or national minorities. detectable particularly after the revelations of Kruschev in 1956.
During the 1930s and 1940s, possible for the Western CPs merely to deny that any such crimes existed. This is no longer possible. The comina such as ine barbaric This trend was it was etariat' criminal policies. suppression of the Hungarian & Czech uprisings, the armed confrontations on the Sino-Soviet border accompanied by mutual criticism of having 'abandoned' socialist principles has weighed heavily on the credibility of Western CPs.
It is under this pressure that trends have developed to distance themselves from the Kremlin to the extent of droping the term 'dictatorship of the prolbecause it is identified in the minds of most workers with Stalin's While such critiques