Martens' evidence against the detractors of Stalin, and analysis of the controversial elements of his regime which are attacked by bourgeois historians, from a scientific perspective, is what allows this book to shine. Arch Getty, Sheila Fitzpatrick and Robert Thurston. For more concise histories by academic History professors I would recommend J. My criticisms of the book come from Martens' attack on Beria, however other ML historians seem to have refuted this well enough, remember Martens was writing in 1991, when information was harder to come by. The late Ludo Martens of the Worker's Party of Belgium presents a concise viewpoint defending Stalin on the basis of fact, and using his work to attack the enemies of Stalin. In order to develop this unification process, the Workers Party of Belgium hosts the International Communist Seminar in Brussels, which is attended by 150 organizations around the world. In addition there are 'independents.' Martens has put forward that while at a certain time these separations were important and based on principle, they can now be overcome and the movement can be united on the basis of Marxism-Leninism.

These are the pro-Soviet groups, the pro-Chinese, the pro-Albanian, and pro-Cuban. Within the International Communist Movement, he is noted for having proposed the unification of the four main tendencies of the Marxist-Leninist movement. He is a leading Marxist theorist within the anti-revisionist movement, and is therefore perceived as a 'Stalin apologist'. Martens writes primarily in French however, his books, especially Another View of Stalin, have been translated into Dutch, English, and numerous other languages. He explained his motivation for writing the book in the introduction: 'Defending Stalin's work, essentially defending Marxism-Leninism, is an important, urgent task in preparing ourselves for class struggle under the New World Order.' In 1994, Martens published Another View of Stalin, a history of the Soviet Union under Stalin that challenges in particular the dominant view of collectivization in the USSR and the Great Purge.

Martens wrote on the political history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he has lived and traveled extensively. In 1968 he founded the Maoist group 'Alle macht aan de arbeiders' (All Power to the Workers), which in 1979 became the Workers' Party of Belgium. He is also the chairman of the Workers' Party of Belgium. Ludo Martens is a Belgian historian noted for his work on francophone Africa and the Soviet Union.

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