ebooks Executing the Rosenbergs: Death and Diplomacy in a Cold War World by Lori Clune in History

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“Sutton comes to conclusions that are uncomfortable for many businessmen and economists. For this reason; his work tends to be either dismissed out of hand as ‘extreme’ or; more often; simply ignored.” ―Richard Pipes; Baird Professor Emeritus of History; Harvard University (from Survival Is Not Enough: Soviet Realities and America's Future)Why did the 1917 American Red Cross Mission to Russia include more financiers than medical doctors? Rather than caring for the victims of war and revolution; its members seemed more intent on negotiating contracts with the Kerensky government and; subsequently; the Bolshevik regime.In a courageous investigation; Antony Sutton establishes tangible historical links between Russian communists and US capitalists. Drawing on US state department files; personal papers of key Wall Street figures; biographies; and conventional histories; Sutton reveals: The role of Morgan banking executives in funneling illegal Bolshevik gold into the US. The co-option of the American Red Cross by powerful Wall Street forces. The intervention by Wall Street sources to free the Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky; whose aim was to topple the Russian government. The deals made by major corporations to capture the huge Russian market a decade and a half before the US recognized the Soviet regime. The secret sponsoring of Communism by leading businessmen; who publicly championed free enterprise. Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution traces the foundations of Western funding of the Soviet Union. Dispassionately; and with overwhelming documentation; the author details a crucial phase in the establishment of Communist Russia.This classic study―first published in 1974 and part of a key trilogy―is reproduced here in its original form. The other volumes in this trilogy are Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler and Wall Street and FDR.