Parvus, the Secret Files
Heresch, Elisabethand photographs
hardcover
First published in
November 2000
Parvus, the Secret Files
THE MASTERMIND OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 1917
He made world history, and yet we hardly know him. Even Lenin was not interested in him any longer, although – or because – he had helped him to power in 1917. But without him no master plan, no millions for the revolution and no return of Lenin through hostile German territory. Who was this ominous man? The Russian Jewish Marxist Alexander Parvus alias Helphand, born in 1868, was obsessed by a vision: to topple the Tsar, to build a Marxist regime in Russia – and to grow rich. After he had become an advisor to the Young Turk government and had earned immense wealth by foreign exchange and arms traffi cking in Konstantinopel, he was able to pull the strings and became the grey cardinal of the Russian Revolution. Early in 1915 his moment came with a plan in which the German Imperial Government simply had to be interested. Germany spent a billion Marks to destabilize Russia in order to get rid of the two-front war. The detailed program that Parvus had presented in Berlin was perfectly planned and organized – up to the use of agitators, sabotage, manipulation of the ruble, and the »sealed carriage« …
- The scintillating portrait of the mysterious manipulator of the Russian revolution
- Reads like a political thriller
- Sensational publication of documents that have long been kept secret