Was it? If you look forward to what the Soviet state was to become--to what it already was in embryo--can one say that it had any "rights" to anything at all? --
Yours,
Brad DeLong
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CB: Yes, of course. Are you crazy !? The SU was a world historic improvement over the ancien regime of Russia and was the bulwark of national liberation anti-colonial revolutions throughout the 20th Century, the great achievement of humanity for that period.