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The USSR was authoritarian, but in a proletarian manner. It had to exert great effort to keep proletarian power going. It was a dramatic expansion in democracy, but we shouldn't pretend it didn't use state power to protect itself and the gains it made. Instead, we should question what it truly means to be "authoritarian."