Stalin was considered right-wing by other communists, and the mainstream Communist Party would often be described as such by those who lived in the Soviet Union.
I'm not sure if Orwell actually used the term for the Stalinist Communist Party but he definitely had a problem with their anti-revolutionary stance in, for example, the Spanish Civil War.
I'm not sure if Orwell actually used the term for the Stalinist Communist Party but he definitely had a problem with their anti-revolutionary stance in, for example, the Spanish Civil War.