For all its contradictory nationalities policies at home, in the first two decades following the Bolshevik Revolution, the Soviet Union was the only country not only verbally committed to anti-imperialism globally but also willing to expend significant material resources and support actual movements in the (semi-)colonial world. That de facto monopoly, combined with the vague knowledge that existed about interwar-era USSR in the Global South, allowed a whole generation of radical thinkers and activists from the latter to re-imagine and repurpose Soviet politics and culture for the particular anti-colonial struggles taking place in their societies. Indeed, the impact of the Bolshevik Revolution on the colonial and semi-colonial world occurred at the intersection of the structures and the networks created by the Bolsheviks through the Comintern, significant as they were though inadequate to the ambition to cover the whole of the Global South, and the imaginaries it sparked there, which creatively  re-interpreted the Revolution as primarily anti-
colonial.