- 12 Sep 2006 23:53
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There is quite a large amount of material available on so-called link between Bolsheviks and Jews. This is just one of many:
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v14/v14n1p-4_Weber.html
Much of this is composed of propaganda and half-truth. There are countless Russians neglected in their lists of government bodies and there are Jewish names in there which never existed. Some even the Latvian Karl Lander are falsely labelled Jews. They also do not take into consideration that in elections to Constituent Assembly, most Jew voters in Ukraine clearly showed that they favoured Bundists and Mensheviks. The Jewish Bund received some 600 thousand votes. There was also heavy Jewish support for the anti-revolution Mensheviks. The source of support for the Bolsheviks came not from Jewish merchants and petit-bourgeois but rather from frustrated ethnic Russian industrial workers and exhausted soldiers from the front. The Bolsheviks who were seen as defending Russian identity also drew support from Russians as far away as Tashkent; Russian workers seized power in Tashkent in 1917.
The actual members of the Bolshevik government can be found here:
http://www.elisanet.fi/daglarsson/dokumentit/sov.htm
Out of all members of the government on 7 November 1917, the only Jew was Trotsky. And Trotsky had only joined the Bolsheviks in the summer of 1917. Everyone else except for the Pole Teodorvitsch and Ukrainian Lunatscharky were Russian. Other important elements of the Bolsheviks not taken into consideration is that some 40,000 former Tsarist officers of which none were Jewish served in the Red Army. 30,000 Latvian Riflemen helped to save the revolution early in 1918 from SRs in Moscow. Information from the RSDRP 5th Party Congress from 1907 shows the nationality of Bolsheviks and Mensheviks:
Bolsheviks: 82 Russians, 12 Jews, 3 Georgians, 2 Armenians, and 1 from each of these: Pole, Latvian, Ukrainian, Estonian, Finn, Tatar. Russians were 78% even though they were only some 48% of Russian Empire. The Bolshevik faction was a genuine Russian party with a small minority of Jews.
Mensheviks: 33 Russians, 28 Georgians, 22 Jews, 6 Ukrainians, 2 Poles, and 1 from each: German, Greek, Armenian, Osset, Estonian.
The Mensheviks were clearly an outsider Jewish-Georgian faction who clearly did not get sympathy from Russian proletariat. However, this is irrelevant because Menshviks were opposed to the October Revolution. Many Jews were therefore anti-Bolshevik and anti-Soviet. While Jewish presence amongst Mensheviks was disproportionate, Georgians were much more so. The Mensheviks in Constituent Assembly received the majority of their votes from Georgia.
At the same time, however, there is indeed truth that to a certain extent at least, Jews were heavily involved in Communism:
Termed the "White Terror" and often exaggerated by the media, it lasted until the end of 1920. The terror often took an anti-Semitic twist, partly due to the large numbers of Jews who had played important roles in the Soviet Republic. Out of 45 commissars of the people, 32 had been Jewish, including Bela Kun himself.
http://www.hungarian-history.hu/lib/bogdan/bogdan17.htm
The Jews definitely dominated the early Communist Party in Hungary. They were 72% of all commissars even though they were just 5% of the country's population. After Soviet liberation, the Jews Matyas Rakosi and Erno Gero led Hungary from 1948-56. They were then forced to leave because of their erratic policies and partly because segments of the Hungarian people were opposed to having Jewish leaders. Janos Kadar who is a sort of saint for Hungary cleaned up the mess left by that pig Rakosi who then died in disgrace.
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v14/v14n1p-4_Weber.html
Much of this is composed of propaganda and half-truth. There are countless Russians neglected in their lists of government bodies and there are Jewish names in there which never existed. Some even the Latvian Karl Lander are falsely labelled Jews. They also do not take into consideration that in elections to Constituent Assembly, most Jew voters in Ukraine clearly showed that they favoured Bundists and Mensheviks. The Jewish Bund received some 600 thousand votes. There was also heavy Jewish support for the anti-revolution Mensheviks. The source of support for the Bolsheviks came not from Jewish merchants and petit-bourgeois but rather from frustrated ethnic Russian industrial workers and exhausted soldiers from the front. The Bolsheviks who were seen as defending Russian identity also drew support from Russians as far away as Tashkent; Russian workers seized power in Tashkent in 1917.
The actual members of the Bolshevik government can be found here:
http://www.elisanet.fi/daglarsson/dokumentit/sov.htm
Out of all members of the government on 7 November 1917, the only Jew was Trotsky. And Trotsky had only joined the Bolsheviks in the summer of 1917. Everyone else except for the Pole Teodorvitsch and Ukrainian Lunatscharky were Russian. Other important elements of the Bolsheviks not taken into consideration is that some 40,000 former Tsarist officers of which none were Jewish served in the Red Army. 30,000 Latvian Riflemen helped to save the revolution early in 1918 from SRs in Moscow. Information from the RSDRP 5th Party Congress from 1907 shows the nationality of Bolsheviks and Mensheviks:
Bolsheviks: 82 Russians, 12 Jews, 3 Georgians, 2 Armenians, and 1 from each of these: Pole, Latvian, Ukrainian, Estonian, Finn, Tatar. Russians were 78% even though they were only some 48% of Russian Empire. The Bolshevik faction was a genuine Russian party with a small minority of Jews.
Mensheviks: 33 Russians, 28 Georgians, 22 Jews, 6 Ukrainians, 2 Poles, and 1 from each: German, Greek, Armenian, Osset, Estonian.
The Mensheviks were clearly an outsider Jewish-Georgian faction who clearly did not get sympathy from Russian proletariat. However, this is irrelevant because Menshviks were opposed to the October Revolution. Many Jews were therefore anti-Bolshevik and anti-Soviet. While Jewish presence amongst Mensheviks was disproportionate, Georgians were much more so. The Mensheviks in Constituent Assembly received the majority of their votes from Georgia.
At the same time, however, there is indeed truth that to a certain extent at least, Jews were heavily involved in Communism:
Termed the "White Terror" and often exaggerated by the media, it lasted until the end of 1920. The terror often took an anti-Semitic twist, partly due to the large numbers of Jews who had played important roles in the Soviet Republic. Out of 45 commissars of the people, 32 had been Jewish, including Bela Kun himself.
http://www.hungarian-history.hu/lib/bogdan/bogdan17.htm
The Jews definitely dominated the early Communist Party in Hungary. They were 72% of all commissars even though they were just 5% of the country's population. After Soviet liberation, the Jews Matyas Rakosi and Erno Gero led Hungary from 1948-56. They were then forced to leave because of their erratic policies and partly because segments of the Hungarian people were opposed to having Jewish leaders. Janos Kadar who is a sort of saint for Hungary cleaned up the mess left by that pig Rakosi who then died in disgrace.
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