EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Socialism was an ideology put forward in 1924 by Joseph Stalin and Nikolai Bukharin that was ultimately embraced as state policy by the Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-2: -Stalin quotes Lenin that “we have all that is necessary for the building of a complete socialist society” and claims that the socialist society has for the most part been indeed constructed.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to Soviet ideology, Russia was in the transition from capitalism to socialism (referred to interchangeably under Lenin as the dictatorship of the proletariat), socialism being the intermediate stage to communism, with the latter being the final stage which follows after socialism.