An allegation that is raised in almost every revisionist literature I can find is that the Bolsheviks were mostly comprised of Jewish intellectuals, and that therefore a "foreign element" was responsible in the subversion and hostile takeover of Russian society (overwhelmingly White and Orthodox Christian), leading to countless dead. But how Jewish were the Bolsheviks really? Pic related contains the amount of actual Jews (i.e. people whose Jewish ancestry can be verified). Compare that to various revisionist claims in their info-graphics that up to 95% of all Bolsheviks were Jewish. There are two approaches that they take:
The first approach, is creating an INCOMPLETE list where they have cherry picked Jewish Bolsheviks, providing first name and last name, photo, date of birth, place of birth, short biography etc. and sprinkled in a handful of non-Jews to make the list look more authentic and then state "here's the list, as you can see, more than 80% Jews!". Except that list is nowhere near complete, i.e. we don't know how many party members there are, and therefore only a selective snippet into which the revisionist has put in as many Jews as possible and thus created a % of his own choosing.
The second approach is creating a list of communist Jews, again providing first name and last name, photo, date of birth, place of birth, short bio etc, and claiming "wow, look at this exhaustive list of communist Jews!" One such example is here:
However, as the name suggests, this list is no longer limited to Bolsheviks in Russia but has seemingly scraped together any and all communist Jews across the world and across many decades. For example, even Chile's Salvador Allende from the 1970s is included! Until you realize Salvador Allende was not a Jew in the first place. That means this list is full of bullshit. But even if for argument's sake we assume every person on this list was really jewish, even then this list does not give you the complete picture, because first of all it has gone off-topic (from "what % of Bolsheviks were Jews" to "what % of Jews were communists?") and by doing so, it has become incomplete again because the number of Jews worldwide who were communists pales in comparison to the number of Jews worldwide who are capitalists, like you and I. By the way, the existence of communist Jews and capitalist Jews is another nail in the coffin of all those who like to see Jews as some kind of hive mentality united in their fight against the gentiles.
The third approach is by producing a much longer list of only Bolsheviks, that also overwhelmingly contains Jews: But what they do here, is copy-paste a long list of only family names, without first names, making independent verification all the tougher, and stamp the word "JEW" next to almost every one of them, while providing no sources to back up their conclusion. But I will address the authenticity of this list later. As to my image, you can look up each of the listed figures' bio in any encyclopedia and confirm what I have posted.
Some revisionists who think themselves particularly clever point out to the picture of Lenin not having a Jewish Star and begin to accuse me of having gotten the simplest of facts wrong. Many revisionists call Lenin a Jew even though the only Jew in his entire bloodline was, on the side of his mother Maria Ulyanova, born Blank[1], Lenin's great-grandfather Moshe/Moshko Itzkovich Blank[2], a Shtetl Jew who later converted to Orthodox Christianity and changed his name to Dmitry Blank (and whose son, Srul/Israil Moshevich Blank, i.e. Lenin's grandfather, was baptized Alexander Dmitrievich Blank[3]), while the entire rest of his bloodline wasn't Jewish. Now some of the tryhards might say "silly goy, it doesn't matter whether Lenin or his mommy were baptized, because Jewishness is inherited through the mother[4], therefore Lenin is a Jew!" But using this very same Jewish Matrilineality, Lenin's Mother Maria inherited her "jewishness" from her (jewish, but baptized) FATHER, and NOT her (non-jewish) mother! Therefore, as per the laws of Jewish Matrilieality, the Jewish line ended with the now baptized Alexander Blank; it was not passed down to his daughter Maria Blank; she was never a Jewess, neither practicing, nor even by lineage, and therefore her son Lenin wasn't one either.
Even if you ignore Jewish Matrilineality and just use racial makeup, let me ask you this: Is it fair to point the finger at a man (let's call him Bob) and call him a White man if his entire family is comprised of Blacks except one great-grandfather who was White, but later in life started to self-identify as Black (just like Rachel Dolezal), and whose son (racially also White) also self-identified as Black, and this son had a half-black daughter, also fully identifying herself as Black, who in turn had a son, namely our Bob, a three-quarter Black? Is that enough to turn Bob into a White man? Hell no. Barack Obama is far more racially White than Lenin was racially Jewish (half vs. quarter). Yet nobody in their right mind calls Obama a White man. So why the revisionist insistence to label Lenin a Jew? This is yet another case where you realize they aren't historians, or even scholars, but anti-semitic ideologues weaving their own make-believe "history": Because labeling the Bolshevik leader as a JEW plays perfectly into their narrative compared to calling him an atheist who was a baptized Orthodox Christian, whose daddy (and mommy!) were baptized Orthodox Christians and her daddy in turn was a Jew baptized into orthodox Christianity, and his father in turn was an actual Jew who later received an adult baptism.
Other revisionists try to pin the whole thing on Putin as a credible authority, saying "well, the PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA, who certainly ought to know things better about his own country than some random schmuck on the internet I'm trying to explain this to, said in a 2013 speech, and I quote: 'The decision to nationalize this library was made by the first Soviet government, whose composition was 80-85 percent Jewish.'" Now the picture above is of the USSR's First Central Committee in 1924, so what about earlier? Going through the 16 names on the first Council of People’s Commissars under the Bolsheviks, there is precisely one Jew among them, Leon Trotsky. Except for the Ukrainian Lunacharsky and the Pole Teodorvitch, everyone else was Russian. Therefore, the proportion of Jewish members even back in 1917 was not 85% or even 80% but 6.25%.[5]
Come to think of it, there were many Jews in leadership roles in the Party of the Mensheviks and the Socialist Revolutionaries, but very few among the Bolsheviks. The numbers are something like under 10% Jews in the top & middle tiers of Bolshevik leadership, around 25% or 30% among the SRs and close to 40% among the Mensheviks. What all three had in common was that they weren’t the tsars, but they fought each other, and the more Jewish Mensheviks ended up losing. So much for the revisionist theory about Jews as a singular political force, united against the goyim, trying to take over a nation together...
Read more:
https://forward.com/opinion/179038/putin-jews-ruined-russia-but-now-were-pals-eh/
It's also funny how the handful of powerful Jewish Bolsheviks like Leon Trotsky (Commander of the Red Army) or Gengrikh Yagoda (director of the NKVD) actually got expelled and executed by fellow Reds.
So to sum up, on the eve of the February Revolution in 1917, of about 23,000 members of the Bolshevik party, 364 (about 1.6%) were ethnic Jews.[6]
And according to the 1922 Bolshevik party census, there were 19,564 Jewish Bolsheviks, comprising 5.21% of the total, and in the 1920s of the 417 members of the Central Executive Committee, the party Central Committee, the Presidium of the Executive of the Soviets of the USSR and the Russian Republic, the People's Commissars, 6% were ethnic Jews.[7]
But let's get to the heart of the issue. On the internet, whether it is among clearly far-right forums such as stormfront and the political boards of 4chan and 8chan, or even among more neutral and family-friendly places such as youtube (and its comment section), twitter, and reddit, in discussions involving the Russian Revolution, there is always this certain long list of allegedly Jewish Bolsheviks in circulation. This list wasn't made up by some right-wing troll in the recent past, but has actually been in circulation since 1921, created by a man called Robert Wilton. Robert Wilton was based in Moscow as a Journalist for the Times of London throughout the period of the Bolshevik revolution. In 1919, he claimed that the Soviet Press provided a list of 556 of the top figures of the Soviet Government, identifying their ethnicity, and Wilton included it as an appendix in his book, "The Last Days of the Romanovs," 1920. The list included 17 Russians, 2 Ukrainians, 11 Armenians, 35 Letts (Latvians), 15 Germans, 1 Hungarian, 10 Georgians, 3 Poles, 3 Finns, 1 Czech, 1 Karaim (Jewish sect) and 457 Jews.
This list is regurgitated on many websites, some examples below:
...and also featured in revisionist Benton L. Bradberry's somewhat widely disseminated novel "The Myth of German Villainy". The list is presented as proof that Jews dominated the early government of the Soviet Union. To begin with, Robert Wilton was an antisemite[9]. More importantly, the list is made up. For example, take one of the more exotic sounding names like Schillenkuss. Type it into google (to try and find more about this person). What do you get? ONLY the same copy-pasted list on various far right sites.
For me, another red flag is when going through that list, in most instances only the family name is given, making it hard for a non-scholar to fact check whether that person really existed, who he or she was, and to verify their Jewish origin.
Furthermore, "Spitzberg", "Kaufman" and "Lelina" were never commissars and were in all likelihood made up people who never existed. There were no "Hygiene" and "Refugee" commissariats either: Robert Wilton made them up as well.
For specific examples, Karl Lander was a Latvian, not Jewish. Jan Anvelt was an Estonian. He was not the head of the nonexistent "Hygiene" Commission, but rather the commissar of a Military academy. Alexander Schlichter and Vasily Schmidt were not Jewish, but of ethnic German Descent.
Long story short: this widely disseminated list is A HOAX. Wilton gives no source in his book, because he made it all up. That's what "Jewish Bolshevism" is. Made up nonsense.
In the entirety of the USSR's Communist Party in 1922, it is a historic FACT that Baltic peoples were actually more over-represented than Jews but you'll NEVER hear a revisionist scholar make an issue out of that, will you? Nope, of course not. THIS[8] was the composition of the entire CPSU in 1922:
72% Russian (53% of the USSR's population)
6% Ukrainian (21% of the USSR's population)
5.2% Jewish (1.8% of the USSR's population)
4.6% Baltic & Polish (0.6% of the USSR's population)
3.4% Trans-Caucasian (2.5% of the USSR's population)
2.5% Central Asian (7% of the USSR's population)
2% RSFSR minorities (4.3% of the USSR's population)
3% others (6.4% of the USSR's population)
Now let's talk about the Politburo, the highest policy-making government authority under the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Ethnic Slavs dominated the Politburo from its establishment in 1919.[10] From 1919 until 1991, 89 members of the Politburo were Russians (which makes up 68 percent).[11] In distant second were Ukrainians, who had 11 members in the Politburo, making up 8 percent.[12] In third place are both ethnic Jews and Georgians, who had 4 members respectively.[12]
In the Civil War, 22,000 ex-Tsarist officers served with the Red Army in 1918 and a total 48,000 in the entire Civil War. This element was crucial in preserving the Bolshevik Revolution. Needless to say, there was not a Jewish element amongst ex-Tsarist officers. Neither was there a Jewish element amongst the primary commanders of the Red Army: The Latvian Riflemen leader Joachim Vatsetis became commander-in-chief of the entire Red Army from September 1918 to July 1919. He was replaced by Sergei Kamenev, who was a Russian. Other important leaders of the Red Army were Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Mikhail Frunze (Romanian), Klement Voroshilov, Vasili Bliukher, and Semyon Budyonni (Cossack).[13]
Thus, it has been proven that there was a limited Jewish presence amongst the Bolsheviks whether in the state, in the party, or in the military.
Sources:
[1]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Alexandrovna_Ulyanova
[2]:
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/was-lenin-jewish/
[3]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank_family#Srul_.28Alexander.29_Blank
[4]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrilineality_in_Judaism
[5]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_People's_Commissars
[6]: Political Activity and Emigration. Beyond the Pale. The History of Jews in Russia. (Exhibition by Joke Kniesmeyer and Daniel Cil Brecher)
[7]: source: Herf, Jeffrey (200
"The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust", page 96
[8]: T.H. Rigby, "Communist Party Membership in the USSR, 1917-1967"
[9]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wilton
[10]: Lowenhardt, John; van Ree, Erik; Ozinga, James (1992). The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Politburo, page 155-156
[11]: ibid, page 139
[12]: ibid, page 136
[13]: Cameron, Kenneth Neill, "Stalin. Man of Contradiction". Toronto: NC Press, c1987, p. 75
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