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Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists Paperback – December 20, 2012

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“Sutton comes to conclusions that are uncomfortable for many businessmen and economists. For this reason, his work tends to be either dismissed out of hand as ‘extreme’ or, more often, simply ignored.” ―Richard Pipes, Baird Professor Emeritus of History, Harvard University (from Survival Is Not Enough: Soviet Realities and America's Future)

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 Russian communists and US capitalists. Drawing on US state department files, personal papers of key Wall Street figures, biographies, and conventional histories, Sutton reveals:

The role of Morgan banking executives in funneling 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 this trilogy are Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler and Wall Street and FDR.

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“Sutton comes to conclusions that are uncomfortable for many businessmen and economists. For this reason, his work tends to be either dismissed out of hand as ‘extreme’ or, more often, simply ignored.”

(Richard Pipes, Baird Professor Emeritus of History, Harvard University (from "Survival Is Not Enough: Soviet Realities and America's Future"))

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Antony C. Sutton (1925-2002) was born in London and educated at the universities of London, Gottingen and California. He was a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution for War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford, California, from 1968 to 1973, and later an Economics Professor at California State University, Los Angeles. He is the author of 25 books, including the major three-volume study Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Clairview Books; Reprint edition (December 20, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 232 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 190557035X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1905570355
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.1 x 0.8 x 9.1 inches

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The Atheist Monk

We are the Communists, President Wilson gave Trotsky a US Passport

Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2018

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This book is part of a four book series that is an academic treatment supported by declassified State Department document, cablegrams, Military records - confirming a real Communist controlled and scripted conspiracy - that is suppressed in the academic community in the United States. It explains the underlying mythology of the Cold War and the war between the Capitalistic West and the Communistic East. What it reveals is the underlying financing of Soviet Russia by the Communists of Wall Street, who run Wall Street, their black ops banks that funnel money to the Communist East under the guise of humanitarian Aid, Military Aid, loans, etcetera, and the real tyranny behind the Federal Reserve shell corporation that ultimately subverts the sovereignty of the United States. We are the Communists. It maters not what you call yourself it's what you DO that matters and it is beyond doubt that E. H. Doheny was right when he said in an interview that President Wilson, and the President of Harvard were Bolsheviks, both were Communists. Look at what Wilson actually did not what the Liberal Press says about him. No one man has subverted American sovereignty than Wilson and FDR comes in a close second. This is the secret of our time and we need to deal with our lost sovereignty in 1913 and the 20 year long silent monetary coup that the government fell victim to through bribery and assassinations ending for the most art in 1933. Congressman Louis T. McFadden served as the Chairman of Finance and Currency for 11 years and was assassinated in 1936 for his vehement denouncement of the installation of the Federal Reserve Bank which subverted US Treasury. This book is the metaphysical foundation of where things went wrong in the United States and it will challenge everything you were ever taught so be prepared for the shock of a lifetime and realize the pain anger and cognitive dissonance you will feel as you tear through the pages will end in a sobering clarity of the lie of our time. You will understand where the fake news comes from.

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As an American libertarian, Sutton believes in individualism, competition, and laissez-faire economics unfettered by governmental meddling. These values seem very American, and one might presume that those who prospered most under these conditions would be champions of these same values. But though lip service may be paid to the ideal of an economy unfettered by government intervention, it seems the tycoons of Wall Street see the world very differently.

“…it may be observed that both the extreme right and the extreme left of the conventional political spectrum are absolutely collectivist. The national socialist (for example, the fascist) and the international socialist (for example, the Communist) both recommend totalitarian politico-economic systems based on naked, unfettered political power and individual coercion. Both systems require monopoly control of society. While monopoly control of industries was once the objectives of J P Morgan and J D Rockefeller, by the late nineteenth century the inner sanctums of Wall Street understood that the most efficient way to gain an unchallenged monopoly was to ‘go political’ and make society go to work for the monopolists – under the name of the public good and the public interest.” P. 16

Whether it was in railroads or oil, the big tycoons learned that the surest way to maximize profits was through monopoly, and so they did their best to do away with competition. But an essential element to establishing and maintaining a monopoly was through influence of government. (In 1913 a private banking cartel was able to influence congress enough to establish the Federal Reserve, a privately held money monopoly.) Competition and democratic processes were obstacles to be overcome. The elite class, then, viewed economics and politics differently than the rest of us – and their perspective was not one they cared to be honest about.

“Consequently, one barrier to mature understanding of recent history is the notion that all capitalists are the bitter and unswerving enemies of Marxists and socialists…. In fact, the idea is nonsense. There has been a continuing, albeit concealed, alliance between international political capitalists and international revolutionary socialists – to their mutual benefit. This alliance has gone unobserved largely because historians – with a few notable exceptions – have an unconscious Marxian bias and are thus locked into the impossibility of any such alliance existing. The open-minded reader should bear two clues in mind: monopoly capitalists are the bitter enemies of laissez-faire entrepreneurs; and, given the weaknesses of socialist central planning, the totalitarian socialist state is a perfect captive market for monopoly capitalists, if an alliance can be made with the socialist pawnbrokers. Suppose – and it is only hypothesis at this point – that American monopoly capitalists were able to reduce a planned socialist Russia to the status of a captive technical colony? Would not this be the logical twentieth-century internationalist extension of the Morgan railroad monopolies and the Rockefeller petroleum trust on the late nineteenth century?” P. 17

This is the context Sutton provides for understanding the underwriting of the Bolshevik Revolution by Wall Street financiers in 1917. He presents astounding assertions, but with strong evidence. And his evidence is very detailed. He doesn’t just summarize his findings in a historical narrative, but often has you reading original cables, letters, committee transcripts, and the like. Because of the sensitive nature of much of the evidence, it is amazing he has been able to uncover what he has. There were people in high places who would want to see these sorts of things suppressed, after all.

What was it that motivated Wall Street financiers to become involved in the Russian revolution? Sutton examines the role of William Boyce Thompson, Federal Reserve Bank director who went to Russia in 1917.

“From the total picture we can deduce that Thompson’s motives were primarily financial and commercial. Specifically, Thompson was interested in the Russian market, and how this market could be influenced, diverted, and captured for postwar exploitation by a Wall Street syndicate, or syndicates. Certainly Thompson viewed Germany as an enemy, but less a political enemy than an economic or a commercial enemy. German industry and German banking were the real enemy. To outwit Germany, Thompson was willing to place seed money on any political power vehicle that would achieve his objective. In other words, Thompson was an American imperialist fighting against German imperialism…” P. 97

Germany, at war with Russia at the time, also tried to influence the revolution. It is well established that the German government financed and organized “the return to Russia of Lenin and his party of exiled Bolsheviks, followed a few weeks later by a party of Mensheviks…” The dual German objectives were “(a) removal of Russia from the war, and (b) control of the postwar Russian market.” P. 169

Wall Street’s motivation for involvement in the Bolshevik Revolution had less to do than Germany’s as to the outcome of the world war, and more to do with the postwar Russian market.

“Russia was then – and is today – the largest untapped market in the world. Moreover, Russia, then and now, constituted the greatest potential competitive threat to American industrial and financial supremacy.” P. 172

“In the late nineteenth century, Morgan, Rockefeller, and Guggenheim had demonstrated their monopolistic proclivities. In Railroads and Regulation 1877-1916 Gabriel Kolko has demonstrated how the railroad owners, not the farmers, wanted state control of railroads in order to preserve their monopoly and abolish competition. So the simplest explanation of our evidence is that a syndicate of Wall Street financiers enlarged their monopoly ambitions and broadened horizons on a global scale.”

“In other words, we are suggesting that the Bolshevik Revolution was an alliance of statists; statist revolutionaries and statist financiers aligned against the genuine revolutionary libertarian elements in Russia.” P. 173

“The question now in the readers’ mind must be, were these bankers also secret Bolsheviks? No, of course not. The financiers were without ideology. It would be a gross misinterpretation to assume that assistance for the Bolsheviks was ideologically motivated in any narrow sense. The financiers were power-motivated and therefore assisted any political vehicle that would give them an entrée to power: Trotsky, Lenin, the tsar, Kolchak, Denikin – all received aid, more or less. All, that is, but those who wanted a truly free individualistic society.” P. 173-4

Money is power, and power corrupts. In reading this volume, as well as the other two books in the trilogy, Wall Street and FDR and Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, the reader obtains a view of the profound influence big money has had on modern history. The big money players are without ideology, and without morals. The influence of big money continues to this day, and Sutton is the rare author who shows it to us for what it is.

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Lance Grundy

The Unholy Alliance of International Finance and International Socialism

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 18, 2018

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The author of this book, Antony C Sutton, was an economist and historian of considerable standing when it was first published in 1974 and it, along with his other works, did considerable damage to his academic reputation. At the height of the Cold War, with the world apparently polarised into competing capitalist and communist blocs, the idea that Bolshevists and bankers could share significant common ground was viewed by many as way-out, tin-foil-hat conspiracy theory. Unfortunately, despite Sutton’s thesis being proved correct time and time again in the intervening decades [think of how effortlessly international capitalism and international socialism mesh in China, the EU and numerous other places around the world] many people still believe that the two ideologies operate in opposition rather than in synergy. If you’re one of those people, then this short book is as good a place as any to begin to change your mind.

In this meticulously researched work [the author draws on numerous cables and unclassified documents and provides copious footnotes] Sutton explains how American capitalists financed the Bolshevik putsch and supported the formation of the Soviet Union. This, he argues, they did for commercial and not ideological reasons. Their overall motivation was the capturing of the post-WW1 Russian market, then as now, the largest untapped market in the world. Their decision to support Bolshevism was apolitical and amoral. The mercenary businessmen of Wall Street recognised early on that, because of the arrested development inherent in socialistic, planned economies they are, essentially, a captive market for capitalistic big business to exploit at their leisure. Also, as Sutton points out, Bolshevists and bankers also share significant common ground – internationalism. Revolution and international finance are not at all inconsistent if the result of revolution is to establish more centralised authority as international finance prefers to deal with central governments.

Forty-four years after the book’s publication and sixteen years after the author’s death, this pernicious international alliance of big business and big government now has the world in its collectivist grip and is crushing freedom and democracy everywhere. According to Sutton, the only solution to prevent this collectivisation of humanity is that "a majority of individuals declares or acts as if it wants nothing from government, declares it will look after its own welfare and interests" and/or "a majority finds the moral courage and the internal fortitude to reject the something-for-nothing con game and replace it by voluntary associations, voluntary communes, or local rule and decentralized societies."

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Slim Jim

If you still believe the US & the USSR were sworn enemies, think again!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 19, 2021

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It's not too often that a book comes along that basically slaps you in the face. This is one of those books. It's hard to imagine a more unlikely scenario than hardened capitalists financing a communist uprising that involved the brutal murder of almost an entire royal family but the painstaking research behind this book leaves no doubt. The fact that the then king of England petitioned the UK parliament to prevent his relatives from being granted asylum, essentially guaranteeing their murders, is another matter entirely.

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fairly interesting but has a rather narrow historical focus

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 25, 2020

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Most versions of the Russian Revolution I've come across are a mess. I bought this book in the hope it would fill in some of the potholes in my knowledge. The book seems to detail the dealings between the American Wall Street banks and the revolutionaries. Although it confirms many scraps of rumours I'd read, it taught me nothing about the revolution. You need to read this book after you have a reasonable background of just what the revolution was all about. About halfway though reading, I found it necessary to do just that. So it seems the bankers who financed the European Great War were also the bankers who financed the Russian Revolution. No big surprises there then.

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Sergei Nemiroff

a REAL HISTORY book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 23, 2012

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Antony Sutton was a very dedicated man when producing his work, with a very high level of attention to detail. This book is no exception. Everything is based on actual facts, and documents from the American State Department, which is giving an official base to his arguments. You learn how Wall Street financed the revolutionary movements in Russia, the relationship between Russia, Germany and the US, and this is giving a very interesting view of international relations, and shows how a history school book is a tasteless romance miles away from the truth. This is to be read along with his work on the transfer of western technology (to understand the links between Wall Street and their so-called "counterparts") and with the rest of his trilogy about Wall Street. This is a must if people want to understand how revolutions are organized, and in which interest. This is easily applicable nowadays. To conclude, I would say that Pr Sutton only goes with what he managed to prove, so the end of the book mentions controversial facts, by which he doesnt stand since he cannot bring any substantial evidence (apart from a little note found in the state department archive). I highly recommend this book, but also all the work produced by this man who should be known much more.

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"enlightening"!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 19, 2015

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The book is very interesting and sheds light on decades of international relations as well as diplomacy and politics. It is definitely a must-have for anyone who's willing to understand contemporary international politics, especially the European and American role in recent and contemporary Russian history.

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