[A. Pole]

I'm a fairly accomplished Googler, and I have found more articles claiming that Lenin and the Bolsheviks were funded by Wall Street, than articles supporting your claim...outside of the one posted by SOM, and that leaves a lot to be desired.

One needs a mental filter tuned to the quality of sources and also be aware of timing. It is possible that there were some secret conspiracies in the backgroud and it is true that some wealthy men (also in America) were Communist sympatizers and sponsors long before WWI.

Still it is a well established and OPEN fact that Germans decided in 1917 to help radical revolution in Russia to win the war. Search Google for:
"sealed train" Ludendorff Lenin

One sample site is The Sealed Train

[Luis Gonzalez]

I found that...finally.

I aslo found this to be quite interesting.