socialism in one country
Noun
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socialism in one country (uncountable)
(socialism) The theory and practice of attaining socialism without world revolution.
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Once established as ruler of the USSR, General Secretary Stalin re-titled the official Socialism in One Country doctrine as “ Marxism-Leninism ”, to establish ideologic continuity with Leninism, whilst opponents continued calling it “ Stalinism ”.
Lee, p. 43. Stalin's Socialism in One Country stressed moderation and development of positive relations between the Soviet Union and other countries to increase trade and foreign investment.
The 1927 Party Conference gave official endorsement to the policy of Socialism in One Country, while Trotsky along with Kamenev and Zinoviev (both now allied with Trotsky against Stalin) were expelled from the Party's Politburo.
Theorist main Stalin and his supporters have highlighted the notion that socialism can be built and consolidated by a country (" Socialism in One Country ") as underdeveloped as Russia during the 1920s.
The proponents of world revolution were being superseded by more pliant subscribers to the Stalinist philosophy of " Building Socialism in One Country ".