LL: I don’t have any books here at the office on the Russian Revolution, but there were two, the Kerensky Revolution and the Lenin Revolution, basically occurring at the same time.
What someone needs to do is to see how many Russian Jews supported Kerensky, who I believe was more of a democratic socialist, but definitely not a marxist.
Interestingly, two people I knew summed up personal experiences with Russian Communism. The first man was the Pulitzer Prise winning writer Isaac Don Levine, who covered the Russian Revolution as a journalist, and who later brought admitted Soviet spy Whittaker Chambers to AA Berle in the White House.
He warned the world of the threat of communism.
Meanwhile, in the US, a man named Marx Lewis (he was named after Karl Marx), took at stand. I once asked him when he first became an anti-communist, and he said, Nov. 4, 1917. He was one of the Jewish anti-communist labor leaders (Hatters Union) in the US, along with his friend Arthur McDowell, and others.
Both spent a lifetime fighting tyranny from the Communists to the Nazis, and the Japanese thrown in too. Both were Jewish and proud of it and both loved America. They were later joined by Morrie Ryskind and other Jews/non-Jews in the Screen Writers Guild who fought the Reds in Hollywood (along with Ronald Reagan, John Wayne, Ward Bond, Adolph Manjeou (sp.?, a man named Barron?, and others.
The old AFL-CIO of George Meaney had many Jewish labor leaders/staffers who successfully fought and crippled the Reds in the labor movement (including Jay Lovestone and his fellow ex-reds, among others).
By the way, the largest contingent in the founding, leadership and membership of the Communist Party USA were from Scandinavia, esp. Finland, according to research provided to Congress by the late Herb Romerstein (and published in House Internal Security Committee hearings, esp. The Theory and Practice of Communism in US Labor, about 1971.
Herb was once the youngest member of the CPUSA, left it because he saw through its lies and bullshit, served in the Korean War, and later devoted his professional career as a govt internal security investigator to exposing communism in the US. He was also the author/co-author of several of the top books on Communism - Venona (with Eric Breindel); Soviet spies (with Stan Evans; the Made-in-Moscow “International Brigades” of the Spanish Civil War, and most of the “Theory and Practice” hearings of HISC, among many other works.
Not all Jews were leftists and many of us who started out as family Democrats learned real fast that the Dems were often the enemies of America, not it supporters (McGovern, Abzug, Dellums, Conyers, all the way to Obama, Axelrod (and his red mentors), Pelois and Reid).
Today, American Jews are among the leadership of the conservative movement across America and in the conservative media. Names like Horowitz, Klein (many), Goldberg, Kesler, King, Chesler, Byren, Rozeman, Kristol, Krouthammer, Mark Levin, etc.
We know who the enemy is and we will not be silent about exposing them.
We also are working hard on getting our misled and undereducated religious brethern to wake up before it is the 1930’s all over again (a time of blindness and pisspoor Jewish leadership).
My parents, aleihem hashalom, were both strongly anti-communist liberals (Adlai Stevenson was their hero), who both voted solidly Democratic until 1972, when George McGovern was a bridge too far for my father. (I think my mother still voted D that year.)