Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution – Antony C. Sutton – Chapter 3

Chapter 3: Lenin and German Assistance for the Bolshevik Revolution

Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists, Antony C. Sutton March 1974, Clairview Books; Reprint edition (December 20, 2012)

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Why did the 1917 American Red Cross Mission to Russia include more financiers than medical doctors? Rather than caring for the victims of war and revolution, its members seemed more intent on negotiating contracts with the Kerensky government and, subsequently, the Bolshevik regime.

Footnotes to Chapter 3:

Footnotes:
1 Max Hoffman, War Diaries and Other Papers (London: M. Secker, 1929), 2:177.

2 Z. A. B. Zeman and W. B. Scharlau, The Merchant of Revolution.. The Life of Alexander Israel Helphand (Parvus), 1867-1924 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).

3Z. A. B. Zeman, Germany and the Revolution in Russia, 1915-1918. Documents from the Archives of the German Foreign Ministry (London: Oxford University Press, 1958), p. 5.

4 Ibid.

5 Ibid., p. 6, doc. 6, reporting a conversation with the Fstonian intermediary Keskula.

6 Ibid., p. 92, n. 3.

7U.S., Committee on Public Information, The German-Bolshevik Conspiracy, War Information Series, no. 20, October 1918.

8 New York Evening Post, September 16-18, 21; October 4, 1918. It is also interesting, but not conclusive of anything, that the Bolsheviks also stoutly questioned the authenticity of the documents.

9 George F. Kennan, "The Sisson Documents," Journal of Modern History 27-28 (1955-56): 130-154.

10 John Reed, The Sisson Documents (New York: Liberator Publishing,n.d.).

11 This part is based on section 861.00 o[ the U.S. State Dept. Decimal File, also available as National Archives rolls 10 and 11 of microcopy 316.

12 U.S. State Dept. Decimal File, 861.00/1117a. The same message was conveyed to the Italian ambassador.

13 See Arthur Bullard papers at Princeton University.

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