Fischer gave a detailed account of this in his German War Aims book back in the 60s.a.
--- original message --- From: "michael perelman" <[email protected]> Subject: [Pen-l] Sending Lenin to Russia Date: 13th August 2012 Time: 5:13:15 pm Sending Lenin to Russia I had not known about where the idea arose in Germany: 93: "German officials did their best to cook up plots among the German barons in the Baltic provinces and among the Finns, Poles, and Ukrainians. They brought to Berlin a Constantinople arms merchant, Alexander Helphand, who had formerly been involved, sincerely, in the Russian revolutionary socialist underground, under the name Parvus. He sold them on the idea of a social revolution in Russia. He charted the future mutiny in the Russian armies according to the model of 1904-5, citing the possibility of a mass strike that would engulf the capitals according to the theory of Rosa Luxemburg. One week after the revolution that overthrew the tsar in February 1917, Helphand got permission from the general staff to provide a train that would send Lenin and his coterie of exiled Bolshevik leaders to Russia." D'Agostino, Anthony. The Rise of Global Powers: International Politics in the Era of the World Wars(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401 _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
