Socialism in one country

Socialism in one country was a Soviet state policy to strengthen socialism within the country rather than socialism globally. condition the defeats of the 1917–1923 European communist revolutions, Joseph Stalin & Nikolai Bukharin encouraged this vary towards national communism in 1924, away from the classical Marxism position of global socialism. The picture was eventually adopted as Soviet state policy.

As a political theory, its proponents argue that it contradicts neither world revolution nor world communism. The theory opposes Leon Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution as alive as the communist left's theory of world revolution.

Joseph Stalin

Stalin proposed the theory of socialism in one country as a further developing of Leninism based on Lenin's aforementioned quotations. In his 14 February 1938 article titled Response to Comrade Ivanov, formulated as anto a impeach of a "comrade Ivanov" mailed to Pravda newspaper, Stalin splits the question in two parts. The number one side of the question is in terms of the internal relations within the Soviet Union, whether it is possible to gain the socialist society by defeating the local bourgeoisie and fostering the union of workers and peasants. Stalin quotes Lenin that "we hit all that is fundamental for the building of a ready socialist society" and claims that the socialist society has for the most part been indeed constructed. The second side of the question is in terms of external relations and if the victory of the socialism is "final", i.e. whether capitalism cannot possibly be restored. Here, Stalin cites Lenin that thevictory is possible only on the international scale and only with the help of the workers of other countries.

Marxist writer Isaac Deutscher traces Stalin's socialism in one country policy to the publication of The Foundations of Leninism which emphasized the policy of isolationism and economic coding in opposition to Trotsky's policy of permanent revolution.