While criticizing Stalin and Yezhov, Reiss promised not to reveal any state security secrets.

Lenin began to criticize Stalin shortly thereafter.

The hero, like Solzhenitsyn, was a man sentenced to hard labour for criticising Stalin.

He earlier served eight years in prison camps for criticizing Stalin in a letter to a friend.

The left wing at the time criticized Stalin for relying on Chiang, a "bourgeois" figure who betrayed the "proletariat."

Heyward Isham, who acquired the book for Doubleday, said the new chapter would criticize Stalin.

Look at how the Soviet Union criticizes Stalin.

"It's not heroism to pull a dead lion by its tail," he said, using an old proverb to characterize the current fashion of criticizing Stalin.

Putin also criticized Stalin many times.

But in the future we'll begin to judge writers not by how sharply they criticize Stalin but by whether they show artistic qualities.