Socialism in only one country

The socialism in only one country is a Théorie Politique which Joseph Stalin in the form of a Slogan advanced the December 20th 1924 and which was thereafter developed by Nikolaï Boukharine with the point to be adopted by XIVe Congrès of the Communist party of the Soviet Union the December 18th 1925. Contradictory with the precepts internationalists formerly defended by Lénine, this theory defended the possibility of implementing only in one and single Pays the Socialisme, in fact in Union of the Soviet socialist republics, founded in 1922. According to Boris Souvarine: “was to break with the intrinsic internationalism of Lénine and to disavow all the Marxism”.

For its partisans, “socialism in only one country” arised as a realistic idea fascinating act of the failure of the movements Révolution naires in Europe a few years earlier to claim the consolidation interns only which had actually succeeded, that which has occurred in Russia in 1917. For its adversaries, among which Leon Trotsky or Amadeo Bordiga, the agricultural character of the Soviet economy required on the contrary a reinforcement by the outside and thus the immediate conversion of the capitalist powers of the Communisme, under penalty of even this last to disappear.

The months which followed the ideological opposition on the question transfer the triumph of the defenders of the theory. Consequently, it was used as base with the Stanilisation of the to be able while making it possible the direction of the party to bring lawsuits against its opponents, and this until in the Années 1930.

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