The Aftermath of the Revolution: Necessary Foreign Policy of the Bolsheviks 1917-1925

After the Bolshevik Revolution, first time in history, a socialist state has been founded. Starting in early revolution, the state faced with unfriendly behaviours by the capitalist states. In the present study, foreign relations of the Soviet Union (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic until 30 December 1922) are examined in the period from Bolshevik Revolution to the 14th Party Congress which held in December 1925. The main problematic of the study is that the Soviet leaders based the foreign policy of the state on the aims of protecting the revolution and gaining diplomatic recognition in the international arena because of the failure of world revolution and the economical difficulties of the country. In this context, foreign policy of the state has discussed under these two topics.