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Who is behind the Bolsheviks?
Shows documented founders, leaders, board members, funders and owners. Not who made decisions, or why.
A connection is not evidence of wrongdoing.
1903 – 8 Mar 1918
Who is behind the Bolsheviks?
Shows documented founders, leaders, board members, funders and owners. Not who made decisions, or why.
Led by. Vladimir Lenin leads the Bolsheviks.
1917
Money in. 1917: The Imperial German government funded the Bolsheviks. Money for propaganda and the party press.
Recorded in the German Foreign Ministry’s own files. How much money reached the Bolsheviks, and how much it mattered, is debated by historians.
Jul 1917
According to the Russian Provisional Government. Jul 1917: The Imperial German government funded the Bolsheviks.
The Provisional Government’s charge of July 1917. Semion Lyandres (1995) re-examines the evidence it relied on.
1917
Disputed. 1917: William Boyce Thompson funded the Bolsheviks. $1M.
Sutton bases this on Thompson’s own statement as reported in 1918.
According to Antony C. Sutton. This is one side’s account, not established fact.
Disputed: A US embassy cable of December 1917 relays a Bolshevik newspaper’s account that American Red Cross money went to anti-Bolshevik publications.
Shows documented founders, leaders, board members, funders and owners. Not who made decisions, or why.
A connection is not evidence of wrongdoing.
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