In Trotskyist political theory the term degenerated workers' state has been used since the 1930s to describe the state of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin's consolidation of power in or about 1924. The term was developed by Leon Trotsky in The Revolution Betrayed and in other works, but has its roots in Vladimir Lenin's formula that the USSR was a workers' state with bureaucratic deformations.
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