Who is behind the Communist Party of the Soviet Union?

8 Mar 1918 – 1991

Who is behind the Communist Party of the Soviet Union?

Shows documented founders, leaders, board members, funders and owners. Not who made decisions, or why.

8 Mar 1918

Led by. 8 Mar 1918: As the Bolsheviks, until 8 Mar 1918: Vladimir Lenin leads the Bolsheviks.

1922 – 5 Mar 1953: Joseph Stalin, head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. General Secretary.

Sep 1953 – 14 Oct 1964: Nikita Khrushchev, head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. First Secretary.

14 Oct 1964 – 10 Nov 1982: Leonid Brezhnev, head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. First Secretary (General Secretary from April 1966).

Mar 1985 – Aug 1991: Mikhail Gorbachev, head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. General Secretary of the Communist Party.

1917

Money in. 1917: As the Bolsheviks, until 8 Mar 1918: 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: As the Bolsheviks, until 8 Mar 1918: 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: As the Bolsheviks, until 8 Mar 1918: 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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