Mälksoo: The Soviet Approach to Right of Peoples to Self-Determination

Lauri Mälksoo (Univ. of Tartu - Law) has posted The Soviet Approach to Right of Peoples to Self-Determination (Journal of the History of International Law, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

One hundred years after the Russian revolutions of 1917, the article deals with Soviet approaches to the right of peoples to self-determination. Is is true that in 1917 and afterwords, Lenin and the Soviets contributed significantly to the establishment of the right of peoples to self-determination as principle of international law? The article examins the thesis of the Bolshevik contribution to the right of peoples to self-deterination in international law from a critical historical perspective.