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Yes, Stalin was socialist because socialism was the economic and governmental system he believed in and kept in place in the Soviet Union. His main philosophy was to establish "socialism in one country."
He was a "communist" in the sense that he believed in the ideas of Karl Marx and that socialism should replace capitalism so that communism could eventually replace socialism.
Stalin would never have allowed true communism to develop in the Soviet Union, because true communism has no government. according to Karl Marx. Even Marx said that it would take generations of life under socialism, before socialism evolved into capitalism and that socialism would have to be forced upon the people for that time until all vestiges of capitalist thought were wiped out.
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JudyYes, Stalin was a socialist but he did not subscribe to true socialism as Karl Marx had seen it. Stalin was dedicated to stamping out all vestiges of capitalism and entrenching a socialist state. His main claim to fame as a philosopher was his insistence that "socialism in one country" could work whereas Marx, Lenin and Trotsky felt that a single socialist country could not survive.
Stalin's brand of "socialism" was despotic rather than democratic.
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Joseph Stalin was the premier of which country?
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) also known as Soviet Union. Most of which was Russia.
The former Soviet Socialist Republic on the Black Sea containing the birthplace of Stalin is?
Georgia
Joseph Stalin was the premere of which country?
The Soviet Union / Union of Soviet Socialist Republics / USSR
Was Stalin Nazi or a dictator?
Joseph Stalin was a corrupt bureaucrat that warped the Socialist ideals of Marx and Lenin (and other Marxists) into a totalitarian regime where the state controlled absolutely everything. Communism by default is highly against a state even existing. Stalin was not a Communist or a Socialist by any means. He was a fascist that used Communist imagery and ideology to control everyone and everything. The only difference between Stalin and Hitler was Stalin did not kill people because they were of a certain race. However Stalin did not treat everyone equal and thought homosexuality to be a crime, much unlike Lenin who argued for homosexuality and abortion to be accepted (legalized during the planned socialist stage of the country)
Were Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler both communists?
Neither of them were. Both were dictators who ruled over different versions of capitalism.
