Stalin’s “Socialism In One Country”—A Century of Disaster

Stalin and others at the 14th congress of the Bolshevik Party, 1925

A century ago, from December 18-31 of 1925, the 14th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union—the first congress following Vladimir Lenin’s death—endorsed the policy known as “Socialism in One Country.” The policy argued that a single country could construct an advanced socialist economy within its national borders. This policy was a complete […]