This is a list of persons who self-identified as Stalinists or who have advocated the implementation of a Marxist-Leninism state run like Stalin's. This is because Stalinism is more a term about the political structure created by Stalin, rather than being a fully-formed ideology of its own. Hence those who advocate the implementation of a Stalin-style system prefer to be deemed Marxist-Leninists or more rarely "Marx/Lenin/Stalin" supporters.

Political figures

• Joseph Stalin – for whom the term Stalinist is named

• Hardial Bains - Founder and leader of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist)
• Lavrenty Beria – Long-time ally and Soviet Interrior Minister who was murdered after Stalin died.
• Jakub Berman – Ally to Stalin, his later dismissal was for "Stalinist-era errors and mistakes."
• Bolesław Bierut – Imposed Stalinism in Poland.^*
• Bill Bland – Led the Communist League of Great Britain, a Stalinist group.
• Harpal Brar – Former member of the Stalin Society noted for his defence of Stalin's rule.
• Tim Buck – came to prominence in Canadian Communism as a supporter of Joseph Stalin.^*
• Vulko Chervenkov – Patterned his regime in Bulgaria on Stalin's and lost favor with the Soviets after Stalin's death.^**
• Horloogiyn Choybalsan – Called Mongolia's Stalin^*
• Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej – General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party, supported Stalin during Stalin's lifetime, but varied somewhat from Stalinism later.^*
• Rajani Palme Dutt – British communist leader, opposed trend away from Stalinism after Stalin's death
• William Z. Foster - Former IWW member and founding member and long time leader of the CPUSA.
• Klement Gottwald – Post-war president of Czechoslovakia
• Enver Hoxha – Head of state of Albania, broke with the USSR over de-Stalinization.^****
• Harry Haywood - African American Communist delegate to the Comintern, theorist of Black Belt Nation thesis.
• Kim Il-sung – The "Great Leader" and "eternal President" of North Korea, he praised Stalin and received support from him^**, but after his death pursued Juche.
• Lazar Kaganovich – Supervised the implementation of many of Stalin's economic policies.
• Georgy Malenkov – Stalin collaborator and member of the Anti-Party Group who opposed Nikita Khrushchev's destalinization.^*
• Mao Zedong - First Chairman of the People's Republic of China and founder of the anti-revisionist movement.
• Ludo Martens - Ideological leader of the Workers Party of Belgium and author of Another View of Stalin.
• Vyacheslav Molotov – Lost position after Stalin's death.^*
• Harry Pollitt - Long-standing General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
• Mátyás Rákosi – Hungarian Stalinist leader^**
• Maurice Thorez, led French Communist Party in Stalinist direction, supported Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, deserted French Army in 1939 and fled to the USSR
• Walter Ulbricht - First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party in the German Democratic Republic.
• Kliment Voroshilov - Long-standing People's Commissar for Defence of the USSR, and a Marshal of the Soviet Union
• Andrey Vyshinsky – Prosecutor at the Moscow Trials who won the Stalin Prize.^*

Writers

• Alexander Fadeyev – Soviet writer who supported the Zhdanov decree and a defender of Stalin's regime in general.^**
• Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy – He eulogized Stalin and is said to have been the potential Virgil for the Stalinist state.^*
• Paul Eluard - He considered Stalin an inspiration^* and supported Stalinist executions.
• Jack Hirschman, San Francisco poet laureate
• Pablo Neruda, author of Ode to Stalin (English translation available here ^*. Several sources indicate he rejected Stalin later on)

Academics

• Louis Althusser - French CP member, anti-revisionist and anti-humanist philosopher.
• Georg Lukacs - Hungarian CP leader and noted philosopher.

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