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Stalin's Language and Politics: Theories and Tactics of Socialism in One Country

WanJong Lee 1

1경원대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Joseph Stalin is one of the most notorious figures in history. In his years of power from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, he personified the Soviet communist order. The October Revolution of 1917 in Russia had given rise to a one-party, one-ideology dictatorship that served as a model for the transformation of societies across a third of the globe's surface after the Second World War. Although Lenin had founded the USSR, it was Stalin who decisively strengthened and stabilized the structure. Without Stalin, the Soviet Union might have collapsed decades before it was dismantled in 1991. Stalin was not just a bureaucrat., he was a man driven by Marxist ideas. Its general assumptions were fashioned by him into politics conforming to his despotic inclinations. The political strategies and tactics of Stalin sprang from his practical calculations and his Marxist worldview. Marxism was a guiding philosophy throughout his political life. His theoretical innovations in ideology were crude developments of Marxism-Leninism. The innovations arose from political self-interest more than intellectual sincerity. Nevertheless, his own language and theories not only rationalized his politics well but also forced Soviet people to devote themselves for "the socialism in one country" and "complete victory of socialism".

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.