The Security of the Soviet State: From Lenin’s Revolutionarism to Stalin’s Pragmatism
The Security of the Soviet State: From Lenin’s Revolutionarism to Stalin’s Pragmatism

Summary/Abstract: At the beginning of World War II, the proletarian solidarity trumpeted ad nauseam by the Second International simply faded away. The social democratic parties in the belligerent countries had replaced internationalism, the doctrine underlying the Second International, with nationalism and chauvinism, clamoring that “the homeland is in danger”; joining sides with the national bourgeoisies, they also proclaimed the need for “social peace”. Lenin’s favoring of the interests of the new regime over the idea of world revolution provided the matrix for the entire foreign policy of Soviet Russia/USSR. At all the major moments that followed, the Soviet diplomacy was never guided by ideological or doctrine considerations, but by practical aspects related to maintaining the Soviet regime

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