ABSTRACT
The relationship between Stalin's policies at home and abroad in the period between 1928 and 1934 is expressed in the somewhat cryptic phrase, "socialism in one country". At the same time, the Kremlin had to act to check the progress of democratic socialism in the western countries, and to foster the international contradictions and rivalries which appeared to have abated. For a Europe at peace, with the prospect of democratic-socialist governments in several countries, was intolerable to the Bolshevik dictatorship and its international ambitions. The socialist movement in Europe made considerable strides. The Socialist International, set up in Hamburg in May 1923, together with its associated Amsterdam International of the Trade Unions, occupied the dominant position in European labor. At the same time, in such European countries as France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Belgium, a constant adaptation to democracy took place in the growing labor movements.
