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History of Germany and Austria --- History of Southern Europe --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1900-1909 --- Iraq --- Turkey --- JIHAD -- 930.3 --- FOREIGN RELATIONS -- 930.3 --- GEOPOLITICS -- 930.3 --- OTTOMAN EMPIRE -- 930.3 --- GERMANY -- 930.3

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Historians have never resolved a central mystery of the Russian Revolution: How did the Bolsheviks, despite facing a world of enemies and leaving nothing but economic ruin in their path, manage to stay in power through five long years of civil war? In this penetrating book, Sean McMeekin draws on previously undiscovered materials from the Soviet Ministry of Finance and other European and American archives to expose some of the darkest secrets of Russia's early days of communism. Building on one archival revelation after another, the author reveals how the Bolsheviks financed their aggression through astonishingly extensive thievery. Their looting included everything from the cash savings of private citizens to gold, silver, diamonds, jewelry, icons, antiques, and artwork. By tracking illicit Soviet financial transactions across Europe, McMeekin shows how Lenin's regime accomplished history's greatest heist between 1917 and 1922 and turned centuries of accumulated wealth into the sinews of class war. McMeekin also names names, introducing for the first time the compliant bankers, lawyers, and middlemen who, for a price, helped the Bolsheviks launder their loot, impoverish Russia, and impose their brutal will on millions.

Finance, Public --- Pillage --- History. --- Soviet Union --- Politics and government --- Looting --- Plundering --- Cameralistics --- Public finance --- Sack (Pillage) --- Military offenses --- Robbery --- War crimes --- Currency question --- Public finances

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Willy Münzenberg-an Old Bolshevik who was also a self-promoting tycoon-became one of the most influential Communist operatives in Europe between the World Wars. He created a variety of front groups that recruited well-known political and cultural figures to work on behalf of the Soviet Union and its causes, and he ran an international media empire that churned out enormous amounts of propaganda and raised money for Communist concerns. Sean McMeekin tells Münzenberg's extraordinary story, arguing persuasively that his financial chicanery and cynical propaganda efforts weakened the non-Communist left, enraged the right, and helped feed a cycle that culminated in Nazism.Drawing extensively on recently opened Moscow archives, McMeekin describes how Münzenberg parlayed his friendship with Lenin into a personal fortune and how Münzenberg's mysterious financial manipulations outraged Social Democrats and lent rhetorical ammunition to the Nazis. His book sheds new light on Comintern finances, propaganda strategy, the use of front organizations to infiltrate non-Communist circles, and the breakdown of democracy in the Weimar Republic. It is also an engrossing tale of a Communist con man whose name once aroused fear, loathing, and admiration around the world.

Communists --- Propaganda, Communist --- Communism --- Bolshevism --- Communist movements --- Leninism --- Maoism --- Marxism --- Trotskyism --- Collectivism --- Totalitarianism --- Post-communism --- Socialism --- Village communities --- Communist propaganda --- Propaganda, Anti-American --- History. --- History --- Münzenberg, Willi. --- Mi︠u︡ntsenberg, V. --- Myuntsenberugu, Wīrī --- Willi, M.

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Geopolitics --- Jihad. --- World War, 1914-1918 --- World War, 1914-1918 --- History. --- Germany --- Germany --- Turkey --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations --- Foreign relations

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World history --- anno 1910-1919