Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution
The State Department Decimal File contains extensive documentation on the hypothesized link between Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution. When the evidence in these official papers is merged with nonofficial evidence from biographies, personal papers, and conventional histories, a truly fascinating story emerges. We find there was a link between some New York international bankers and many revolutionaries, including Bolsheviks. These banking gentlemen, who are here identified, had a financial stake in, and were rooting for, the success of the Bolshevik Revolution