We should remind ourselves that Lenin supported self-determination because in the case of oppressed nationalities, it helped mobilize people against imperialism.
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And so he did. And so did Stalin, too, in his pre-WWI writing on the National Question. But when those oppressed nationalities turned themselves into the servants of French and British imperialism, to help Witte et al against Russia, he had a change of mind.
-- Gregory P. Nowell Associate Professor Department of Political Science, Milne 100 State University of New York 135 Western Ave. Albany, New York 12222
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