Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution

The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists

Antony Cyril Sutton

• Publisher: Clairview Books
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9781905570614
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Economic History
• Index: Economics

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.In a courageous investigation, Antony Sutton establishes tangible historical links between US capitalists and Russian communists. Drawing on State Department files, personal papers of key Wall Street figures, biographies and conventional histories, Sutton reveals: The role of Morgan banking executives in funnelling illegal Bolshevik gold into the US; the co-option of the American Red Cross by powerful Wall Street forces; the intervention by Wall Street sources to free the Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky, whose aim was to topple the Russian government; the deals made by major corporations to capture the huge Russian market a decade and a half before the US recognized the Soviet regime; the secret sponsoring of Communism by leading businessmen, who publicly championed free enterprise.Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution traces the foundations of Western funding of the Soviet Union. Dispassionately, and with overwhelming documentation, the author details a crucial phase in the establishment of Communist Russia.This classic study - first published in 1974 and part of a key trilogy - is reproduced here in its original form. (The other volumes in the series include Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler and a study of Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1933 Presidential election in the United States.)

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• CHAPTER 1 The Actors on the Revolutionary Stage
• CHAPTER 2 Trotsky Leaves New York to Complete the Revolution
• CHAPTER 3 Lenin and German Assistance for the Bolshevik Revolution
• CHAPTER 4 Wall Street and World Revolution
• CHAPTER 5 The American Red Cross Mission in Russia - 1917
• CHAPTER 6 Consolidation and Export of the Revolution
• CHAPTER 7 The Bolsheviks Return to New York
• CHAPTER 8 120 Broadway, New York City
• CHAPTER 9 Guaranty Trust Goes to Russia
• CHAPTER 10 J. P. Morgan Gives a Little Help to the Other Side
• CHAPTER 11 The Alliance of Bankers and Revolution
• APPENDIX 1 Directors of Major Banks, Firms, and Institutions Mentioned in This Book (as in 1917-1918)
• APPENDIX 2 The Jewish-Conspiracy Theory of the Bolshevik Revolution
• APPENDIX 3 Selected Documents from Government Files of the United States and Great Britain
• Selected Bibliography