Chapter 3: Lenin and German Assistance for the Bolshevik Revolution
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Footnotes to Chapter 3:
Footnotes:
1 Max Hoffman, War Diaries and Other Papers (London: M. Secker, 1929), 2:177.
2 Z. A. B. Zeman and W. B. Scharlau, The Merchant of Revolution.. The Life of Alexander Israel Helphand (Parvus), 1867-1924 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).
3Z. A. B. Zeman, Germany and the Revolution in Russia, 1915-1918. Documents from the Archives of the German Foreign Ministry (London: Oxford University Press, 1958), p. 5.
4 Ibid.
5 Ibid., p. 6, doc. 6, reporting a conversation with the Fstonian intermediary Keskula.
6 Ibid., p. 92, n. 3.
7U.S., Committee on Public Information, The German-Bolshevik Conspiracy, War Information Series, no. 20, October 1918.
8 New York Evening Post, September 16-18, 21; October 4, 1918. It is also interesting, but not conclusive of anything, that the Bolsheviks also stoutly questioned the authenticity of the documents.
9 George F. Kennan, "The Sisson Documents," Journal of Modern History 27-28 (1955-56): 130-154.
10 John Reed, The Sisson Documents (New York: Liberator Publishing,n.d.).
11 This part is based on section 861.00 o[ the U.S. State Dept. Decimal File, also available as National Archives rolls 10 and 11 of microcopy 316.
12 U.S. State Dept. Decimal File, 861.00/1117a. The same message was conveyed to the Italian ambassador.
13 See Arthur Bullard papers at Princeton University.