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- Bolsheviks' takeover and consolidation of power were not entirely approved by existing socialist parties in Europe .
- However, the possibility of a workers’ state fired people’s imagination across the world .
- Communist parties like the Communist Party of Great Britain were formed in many other countries too.
- The Bolsheviks encouraged colonial peoples to follow their experiment .
- The Conference of the Peoples of the East ( 1920 ) and the Comintern , which was created by the Bolsheviks , both attracted a large number of non-Russians from outside the USSR (an international union of pro-Bolshevik socialist parties ).
- Some students attended the Communist University of the Workers of the East in the USSR .
- The USSR had given socialism a global face and a global stature by the time the Second World War started .
- Yet by the 1950s it was acknowledged within the country that the style of government in the USSR was not keeping with the ideals of the Russian Revolution .
- The Soviet Union's problems were acknowledged by the global socialist movement as well.
- A backward country had become a great power .
- The country's businesses and agriculture had advanced , and the hungry were nourished .
- However, it had deprived its inhabitants of fundamental liberties and carried out its development ambitions through draconian laws .
- Though it was acknowledged that socialist ideas continued to be respected among its citizens , the USSR's reputation as a socialist nation had diminished by the turn of the 20th century .
- But in each country, the ideas of socialism were rethought in a variety of different ways.
