Stalinism

Marxist-Stalinism, or just Stalinism, is the most common form of Communism and an adaptation of its predecessors, Marxism and Marxist-Leninism popularised by Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union. It encompasses the Soviet Union's government, specifying the absolute totalitarian rule of Stalin as General Secretary, and emphasising the need for Socialism in One Country, rather than spreading the world revolution as foretold by Leon Trotsky. Moreover, the ideology was portrayed as a 'defence of true Communism' following the Roterspaltung of 1926, as a direct competing ideology to German Spartacism in Germany.