In the two preceding chapters we have seen how Lenin and lesser Marxist luminaries attempted to come to terms with the immediate aftermath of the October Revolution and the period in which it became clear that ‘orthodox’ revolutions in the capitalist centre were not going to give the supposedly indispensable support to the Soviet regime. That left the member parties of the Comintern, and that body as a whole, faced with the continuing issue of planning, organizing and carrying out other ‘unorthodox’ revolutions in untheorized circumstances. Leninism/Stalinism in fact emerged and was shaped from Lenin’s death in January 1924 onwards in this context. At the same time, a sort of dialectical interplay between theory and practice was launched by the concrete application of the Comintern’s attempted theorization in individual countries.