7 Nov 1984 Jahr - "U.S. 'AID' TO THE BOLSHEVIKS" NY Times 1984, Nov 7

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NY Times 1984, Nov 7 - U.S. 'AID' TO THE BOLSHEVIKS

In Red Square today, leaders will extol the 67th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Their rhetoric will not reveal an instructive truth about the unintended American contribution to the Revolution. Through avoidable misjudgments, many of them similar to current policies, America was an indirect partner in the Communists' ascent to power in 1917. Conditions in the Czarist Empire, together with disenchantment at prolonged involvement in World War I, provoked spontaneous mass outbursts leading to the abdication of Nicholas II on March 15, 1917. Given the unresponsive nature of a system that had outlived its utility, this revolution was probably inevitable. The Bolsheviks did not play a major part in the Czar's overthrow - most of their leaders were in exile and returned only afterward.

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