Hilaire Belloc on the Bolshevist Movement
"It was the pure despotism of a clique, the leaders of which had been specially launched upon Russia under German direction in order to break down any chance of a revival of Russian military power, and all those leaders, without exception, were Jews, or held by the Jews through their domestic relations, and all that followed was done directly under the orders of Jews, the most prominent of whom was one Braunstein, who disguised himself under the assumed name of Trotsky. A terror was set up, under which were massacred innumerable Russians of the governing classes, so that the whole framework of the Russian State disappeared. Among these, of course, must specially be noted great numbers of the clergy, against whom the Jewish revolutionaries had a particular grudge. A clean sweep was made of all the old social organization, and under the despotism of this Jewish clique the old economic order was reversed....
"For the Bolshevist movement, or rather explosion, was Jewish.
"That truth may be so easily confused with a falsehood that I must, at the outset, make it exact and clear.
"The Bolshevist Movement was a Jewish movement, but not a movement of the Jewish race as a whole. Most Jews were quite extraneous to it; very many indeed, and those of the most typical, abhor it; many actively combat it. The imputation of its evils to the Jews as a whole is a grave injustice and proceeds from a confusion of thought whereof I, at any rate, am free."
I'm familiar with that quote and agree with it completely. But it doesn't contradict Solzhenitsyn's claim that, after the revolution, Lenin needed "intelligent, sober, and new clerks" who were dedicated to the communist system and so he opened the bureaucracies to Jews who "flooded and abounded in the lower layers of the party structure."