Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution

"Why did the American Red Cross Mission to Russia include more financiers than medical doctors? Rather than caring fro the victims of war and revolution, its members seemed more intent on negotiating contracts with the Kerensky government, and subsequently the Bolshevik regime ... Sutton establishes tangible historical links between US capitalists and Russian communists. Drawing on State Department files, personal papers of key Wall Street figures, biographies and conventional histories, Sutton ... traces the foundations of Western funding of the Soviet Union"--Publisher's description.