Alekhine was not a product of the "Soviet chess school." He was a world class player before the Soviet Union even existed.
Alekhine became world champion in 1927. Soviet Union was official formed in 1922. Before that it was Soviet Russia and before that the Russian Empire. We can argue the fine points, but that doesn't change the argument as a whole. Point is, he wasn't born and raised in France or somewhere else in western Europe. He was a Russian, and that's where he spent his formative years and learned chess.
And so were Akiba Rubinstein, Aaron Nimzowitsch, Ossip Bernstein and others. It doesn't make any of them a product of the Soviet Chess School (which by the way was only a school in the ordinary sense of the word, not in the sense of dogma or principles - as opposed to the Vienna school or the Tarrasch school). As a matter of fact, most of these players, including Alexander Alekhine, cut their teeth in the strong German chess congresses before the First World War, as did countless other players from all over Europe, and the US (Frank Marshall, for instance). It wasn't until a player had a achieved an impressive result in one of them, that others began to take him seriously.
Alekhine was not a product of the "Soviet chess school." He was a world class player before the Soviet Union even existed.
Alekhine became world champion in 1927. Soviet Union was official formed in 1922. Before that it was Soviet Russia and before that the Russian Empire. We can argue the fine points, but that doesn't change the argument as a whole. Point is, he wasn't born and raised in France or somewhere else in western Europe. He was a Russian, and that's where he spent his formative years and learned chess.