Did Jews support the Russian Revolution and Communism?

Historical ignorance plays a fatal role when simple-minded anti-semites talk about communism. A great many people around the world supported, helped, and cheered the initial effort in Russia to establish an Americn or French style democracy in Russia. (More precisely something somewhere between the American Revolution and the French Revolution that did not turn out so well at first.)


Many Americans saw the Russian Revolution at first as the inevitable historical spread of the AMERICAN REVOLUTION to other countries. Don't forget that the Founders of the United States passionately hoped and believed that other countries would follow their lead and example and establish similiar democracies. Many in the Russian Revolution took their inspiration from the USA, France, and Great Britain's democratic-based Constitutional Monarchy.

At first, the Russian Revolution was a broad-based freedom-oriented movement, seeking democracy, not unlike the American Revolution.

In Russia, in the United States, in France, and in many other places the Russian Revolution was correctly seen as a movement toward democracy and freedom.

However, the Russian Revolution was then HIIJACKED in a subsequent coup.

I explain it this way: Russia went through at least 3 revolutions (4 if you count the failed revolution of 1905): The initial revolution. The VIOLENT COUP that then took over the country and stole the revolution from the people.

A a 3rd slow-motion revolution was created by Orthodox Christian Josef Stalin, who completely destroyed the previous government and totally replaced it through a massive campaign of gigantic purges.

Stalin's on-going purges, over many, many years, systematically tore down everything that had been in place before, and created an entirely new Stalinist government of the Soviet Union.

What we know of today as the evil of Soviet communism is primarily the 3rd Soviet government after the 3rd revolution, created by Russian Orthodox Seminary Student Josef Stalin.

(The Bolsheviks who hijacked the original revolution were no angels, and had the seeds of plenty of evil in their efforts. But they were girl scouts compared with Stalin.)

It is the 3rd government under Christian Priest-hopeful Josef Stalin that embodies almost everything negative or evil that we know of today as communism. (Stalin was awarded a scholarship to study to become an Eastern Orthodox Priest. No Jew would be given such a scholarship in anti-semitic Georgia or Russia at the time. Unfortunately, as tuition went up, the scholarship fell short of the money needed, and Stalin was forced to drop out of Seminary.)

The 1st revolution in 1917 included almost everyone in Russian society (and interests around the world) who wanted Russia to go through the same evolution that the United States, France, and Great Britain had gone through.

SO ENORMOUS NUMBERS OF PEOPLE PARTICIPATED IN THE 1917 REVOLUTION WHO WERE SIMPLY IN FAVOR OF DEMOCRACY.

PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD SUPPORTED THE 1917 REVOLUTION AS A STEP TOWARDS US OR FRENCH STYLE DEMOCRACY

Someone's participation in the 1917 revolution does not mean they had any relationship whatsoever to the Bolshevik government that then seized control in a coup that I refer to as a 2nd Russian Revolution.

The fact that someone supported from Europe or participated in Russia in the original 1917 revolution IS NOT SAYING MUCH OF ANYTHING.

Most of those people simply wanted to create a French or American style democracy in Russia.

Then the "Reds" -- the Bolsheviks -- stormed into the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and arrested the Provisional Government.

When I took a tour of the Hermitage around 1993, the Russian local guide pointed to a huge clock under a large glass dome over a fireplace.

The Russian guide told us that the Bolsheviks who arrested the Provisional Government came in through that ante room, and then entered the adjoining ball room, late at night, where the Provisional Government was meeting.

The Russians themselves tell the story that the clock stopped at that moment and the clock has not run since. The Russians themselves tell the story that just as Russia itself has been frozen in staganation since that moment, the clock symbolically stopped, for all of Russia, from the moment when the Bolsheviks betrayed the coalition by attacking the other members of the coalition.

The Russians themselves today view the 2nd revolution (as I call it) when the revolution was HIJACKED as a moment when Russia's history was betrayed and frozen in time.

So simply because someone supported or participated in the original overthrow of the Czar does not mean they supported the later 2nd revolution by the Bolsheviks.

The 2nd revolution by the Bolsheviks was a sharp break with the original democracy movement of 1917.