The Energy of Empire 18. The Russian Revolution

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In addition to the anti-communist crusade, the Russian Revolution also gave rise to anti-communist conspiracy theories. At their most extreme, these posited that dark elements within the US Government secretly supported the rise of communism and even facilitated the Bolsheviks coming to power. In attempting to understand the nature of the Empire, what are we to make of such claims?

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Notes:

Conspiracy Theories: The Bolshevik Revolution, podcast by Tom Secker:

https://www.spyculture.com/clandestime-episode-004-conspiracy-theories-the-bolshevik-revolution/

Killing Hope, by William Blum:

https://williamblum.org/books/killing-hope

Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, by Anthony Sutton:

https://archive.org/details/WallStreetTheBolshevikRevolution

Interview with Anthony Sutton:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVfbbebIBCA

Russia and the Soviet Union, by Ralph Raico:

https://tinyurl.com/mrxn365d

Splendid Isolation?: Britain, the Balance of Power and the Origins of the First World War, by John Charmley:

https://tinyurl.com/ybzs6e2t

Wall Street and the Russian Revolution, by Richard Spence:

https://tinyurl.com/2a8evk69

Prolonging the Agony: How the Anglo-American Establishment Deliberately Extended WWI by Three-And-A-Half Years, by Jim MacGregor and Gerry Docherty:

https://tinyurl.com/b7d9dzfr

For a summary of Jüri Lina’s work see, Do Americans Face a Red Terror?, by James Perloff:

https://jamesperloff.com/tag/russian-revolution/

A People's History of the Russian Revolution, by Neil Faulkner:

https://tinyurl.com/sd3kzkct

Article on General Maurice Janin

https://pandorinaskrinka.sk/general-maurice-janin-saved-the-legionnaires-in-siberia-but-died-in-oblivion-part-one/

Trotsky in New York, 1917: A Radical on the Eve of Revolution, by Kenneth D. Ackerman

https://tinyurl.com/3xx8rd43

Lord Milner's Visit to Petrograd (UK Gov. Hansard)

https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1917/apr/03/lord-milners-visit-to-petrograd

America's Secret War against Bolshevism: U.S. Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1920, by David S. Foglesong:

https://tinyurl.com/yt7tkdfd

Albert Rhys Williams:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/williams/index.htm

Bolshevik Propaganda: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate:

https://books.google.im/books/about/Bolshevik_Propaganda.html?id=DW9WqP4sHKsC&redir_esc=y