Contrary to the predictions of many socialists such as Lenin, the revolution failed to spread to Germany and other industrial Western European countries (although there were massive upheavals of working people in some of these countries), and consequently the Soviet state began to degenerate.
与列宁等社会主义者的预言相反，革命未能成功扩散到德国以及其他西欧的工业化国家（尽管在部分国家发生了大规模的工人起义），因此苏联政权开始堕落。