Post the October Revolution

The empirical content presents itself in historical record, the Bolsheviks in the fall of 1917 took the mantle from the provisional government - who spurned the opportunity to present the Communists as pro German conspirators and hence could not derail their ascension. 

The Bolsheviks found themselves in the serendipitous position of being able to appeal to nominally incompatible factions; those of the non-ethnic border regions and also supporters of the Tsar. The encroachment of white forces with the imperative to reconstitute the imperial empire which was in the midst of Russification in order to protect the autocracy which would supposedly act as a bulwark against western interference had the consequence of bringing the besieged non-Russians close to the Bolsheviks who paradoxically - given their communist disposition - guaranteed the right to self determination. Additionally, the white forces themselves representing a threat to the Russian nation allowed the Bolsheviks to curry favour with Tsarist conservatives. 

Therefore, the recognition of the nation state was the bridge which would permit the Bolsheviks to cultivate a perception that they were the defenders of minority groups, while simultaneously presenting the threat of the White forces, which contained the Japanese - who not long ago defeated the empire in 1905 - as defenders of Russian nationals, this facilitating their passage into the Red Army. 

Using the premise in Marxist thought that development is a necessary process, plus the existence of developed nations and non developed nations existing concurrently. With the existence of less developed nations the developed countries from the west would obstruct their comparative advantage in order to maintain markets, thus impeding the necessary development of agrarian society into capitalist society. 

In respect to this exposition, the divergence of the USSR from the forced homogeneity of the Tsarist empire through a policy of Russification served to define the Soviet Union as a bulwark against imperialism and thus consolidate a behaviour peculiar to developed capitalist society. This was a strategy used to attract poorer colonies into the the sphere of the USSR while simultaneously assuaging the non-ethnic Russians who constituted a part of the former Tsarist empire, thus enabling a more unified force in the fight against the White Army and any prospect of separatist promptings from the West designed to abridge the Russian perimeter and open the North European Plain up this leaving it susceptible to attack.