ABSTRACT
As discussed earlier, the Bolsheviks placed their hopes of building socialism in backward Russia on the victory of a proletarian revolution in developed Western countries. It was this hope upon which all their calculations were constructed. They strictly believed that only the world revolution could ensure the socialist future of the Soviet State. As Lenin stated in March 1918 at the Seventh Emergency Congress of the RCP(B), “Regarded from the world-historical point of view, there would doubtlessly be no hope of the ultimate victory of our revolution if it were to remain alone, if there were no revolutionary movements in other countries.” 1
