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Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s documentation of Stalinism strikes the same note: the elimination of a private existence away from politics, with the regime constantly forcing itself upon one’s attention, feeding each individual’s growing atomization and learned helplessness.

Kelman said that the system of "turning in your friends to the government" was reminiscent of "Soviet Stalinism."

There's another distortion in Marxist thought, what you described as "the monster known as Stalinism."

"Communism survived the deaths of Stalin and Mao, but Stalinism and Maoism did not."

As Hannah Arendt so insightfully observed in her landmark work “The Origins of Totalitarianism”, Stalinism and Hitlerism were the two major totalitarian movements of the first half of the 20th century.