Page "Joseph Stalin" Paragraph 7

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.

Indeed this might be the only means in which it could be built in a hostile environment.

In 1933, Stalin put forward the theory of aggravation of the class struggle along with the development of socialism, arguing that the further the country would move forward, the more acute forms of struggle will be used by the doomed remnants of exploiter classes in their last desperate effortsand that, therefore, political repression was necessary.