This is what Lenin wrote in regards to him and other progressive bourgeois revolutionaries:

Enzo Traverso wrote on the topic, let me give you the basic idea.

Rightist French historians snuck in the idea that Robespierre = Stalin to defamate communism. The kind of people who strangely did not condemn Vichy France, yknow.

So in the end there are “good” and “bad” revolutions. Usa 1776 good cause muh freedemz, Russia 1917 bad because gulag. And the French rev sits 50-50 there.

THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.

He played a progressive role historically https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Maximilien_de_Robespierre

Here is a chapter from a Soviet history book on the French Revolution.