If you think the instigators of the Russian Revolution were also liberals, you are surely mistaken. They didn't care about the political question. Issues like

If you think the instigators of the Russian Revolution were also liberals, you are surely mistaken. They didn't care about the political question. Issues like representative government, suffrage and free speech were secondary issues to the real issues: How to protect the workers. The design of the Soviet Union was a regime that would be owned and run by the workers (that's not how it ended up in practice, but that was the theory). They were not liberals, and scuffed at the idea of liberalism, blaming the liberal revolutions of the past century merely for handing the power from aristocrats to capitalists, but the worker remained oppressed.