WAS SOVIET FOREIGN POL？CY DEVIATED FROM THE IDEOLOGY IN THE STALIN ERA?

Abstract The ideology of the Soviet Union was Marxism-Leninism. It consisted of the principles based on Marxism which were introduced by Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the revolution. Marxism-Leninism had an internationalist perspective and it was aiming for the working class to seize power in all countries. The Soviet Revolution, which occured on November 7, 1917, was estimated as the beginning of the world revolution. After the revolution, a foreign policy environment was not expected or preferred. But when the revolution became limited to one country, the Bolsheviks faced real politics. The foreign policy environment, in other words, the world dominated by bourgeois states stood in front of the Soviet Union. This study focuses on whether the interests of the Soviet state/Soviet working class were superior to the perspective of world revolution. Soviet policies have been evaluated to what extent they contributed to the perspective of and struggle for world revolution. In this context, the main problematic of the study is that during Stalin period, the Soviet Union retreated from the perspective of and struggle for world revolution but this does not mean that it was deviated from Marxist-Leninist ideology