Socialism in one country

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Socialism in one country was a Soviet state policy to strengthen socialism within the USSR rather than socialism globally. Given the defeats of the 1917–1923 European communist revolutions, Joseph Stalin encouraged the theory of the possibility of constructing socialism in the Soviet Union alone. The theory was eventually adopted as Soviet state policy. As a political theory, its exponents argue that it contradicts neither world revolution nor world communism. The theory opposes Leon Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution and the communist left's theory of world revolution. Initially, all leading Soviet figures including Stalin agreed that the success of world socialism was a precondition for the survival of the Soviet Union. Stalin expressed this view in his pamphlet, "Foundations of Leninism." However, he would later change this position in December 1924 during the succession struggle against Trotsky and the Left Opposition. The theory was criticized by Trotsky and Grigory Zinoviev...

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