Internationalism No. 80, October 2025 Page 13 From the series Pages from the history of the workers’ movement For Lenin and the Bolsheviks, it was clear that, without connection to a victorious revolution at the international level, starting with Germany, the revolution in Russia was doomed to isolation and therefore to failure. The two halves of socialism As confirmation of how false the later Stalinist lie of socialism in one country would be, in the article On ‘Left-Wing’ Childishness and Petty-Bourgeois Spirit , published in Pravda in 1918, Lenin wrote clearly: Socialism is inconceivable without large-scale capitalist engineering based on the latest discoveries of modern science. [...] And history [...] has taken such a peculiar course that it has given birth in 1918 to two unconnected halves of socialism existing side by side like two future chickens in the single shell of international imperialism. In 1918 Germany and Russia have becom...