Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution

A heavily documented study of contacts between American finance, major corporations and revolutionary Russia in 1917 and the years that followed. Drawing on State Department files, personal papers and conventional histories, it examines the role Sutton attributes to business interests in early dealings with the Bolshevik regime.

The book is presented as a political and economic history of a controversial period, with detailed reconstruction of connections between Wall Street and Soviet Russia. It reflects the arguments and style of a classic study first published in 1974.