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Old July 11th, 2012 #64
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Don't know what to tell you , hadding ; try Czarism and the Revolution" by Arsene de Goulevitch re: Schiff bankrolling
Hm, Arsene de Goulevitch. I am reading that his source was Boris Brasol, who translated the Protocols into English.

Brasol's argument in The World at the Crossroads seems to be entirely circumstantial. Basically, because Kuhn, Loeb &co. had financed Japan in the Russo-Japanese War (which is well known) and because Schiff was generally hostile to Russia, it seemed likely that he had financed the Bolsheviks as well. That's an hypothesis, not a proof.

From a business perspective, lending money to the Empire of Japan, which will continue to exist even if it loses the war, is entirely different from shipping gold to some revolutionaries that may not prevail. It's a leap to infer one from the other.

You can't really infer support for Bolshevism from support for the Kerensky government either.

I see Kuhn, Loeb & co. mentioned as financing the first five-year plan, but that only started in 1929, when the Communists had become firmly established as the government of Russia. Again, this is not comparable to financing a revolution.

Last edited by Hadding; July 11th, 2012 at 06:50 PM.