Who the fuck in Russia wanted international revolution? A few Bolsheviks. Most people wanted peace, land and bread.
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While it's no doubt true that most peasant participants in the events of 1917 had no concept of international revolution, this is not the case with the workers, sailors and soldiers of Petrograd, who were the leading revolutionary core in 1917. All contemporary accounts testify that they were thoroughly inmbued with socialist internationalism. It was not just a few Bolsheviks. Moreover, the internationalism of 1917 swept much of Europe from 1918 to 1921--Germany, Hungary, northern Italy. Even in remote corners of Ireland, rural laborers on strike against their landlords were christening their strike committees "soviets."
People who have seen the Soviet system "from the inside" may indeed know things others can't, but they also sometimes tend to be a trifle smug, with an inclination to project the cynicism of their own times backward into history. Russia under Lenin was not Russia under Brezhnev. There are continuities, but discontinuities as well. Having lived there, or in Eastern Europe, makes one no more of an expert on Communism than living in America makes one an expert on capitalism. One must study history, among other things.