It was Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Russian, revolutionary Bolshevik party that emphasised National Self-Determination. Wilson and Lenin both were in fierce advocacy of Self-Determination, but through vast, and in many ways contradictory, methods. Lenin's principle of National Self-Determination referred to a  revolutionary means in which those  nations subjugated by imperial powers must rise up, and overthrow the rule, by solidifying a national consciousness amongst the people. Lenin’s National Self-Determination also encouraged liberation of non-White races from White subjugation, whereas Wilson tended towards a relatively Eurocentric view, often exclusively alluding to self-determination in European nations such as Germany, and was rather exclusionary of liberation of non-White nations. However, regarding Wilson's domestic policy on race in the US, one could hardly be shocked by such a view, considering Wilson implemented strong segregation laws harsher than some of his predecessors, and was rather anti-Black liberation.  Where Lenin sought to revolutionise Europe and extricate imperially dominated nations and marginalised ethnic groups through overthrow, Wilson aimed to squash revolutionary movements,  such as Lenin's, and advocated for autonomy of nations, and peace through a government of consent, rather than true freedom from exogenous rule.  Wilson didn't truly advocate for complete freedom of nations from the authority of others, but did agree they had the right to domestically govern their own people.  Despite the contradictions in ideology and praxis between the two, one thing could be agreed upon by Lenin and Wilson; both agreed that a hegemonic, global ideology would vanquish conflict and harmonise nations, but which ideology they commended was the source of contention. One can observe this as a struggle of "Liberal Internationalism" vs. "Communist Internationalism", or, to simplify further, an age old leftist debate; Reform or Revolution? Subsequently, following the widespread knowledge of Wilson's failed attempts to sway European and Imperial nations in favour of Self-Determination, a wave of anti-colonial revolt started across Asia and imperially dominated nations, perhaps insinuating then, that Lenin's methods proved the most effective in the end.