A classic interview by Professor Antony Sutton, who taught economics at California State University, and was a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

Read "Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution" here:
http://www.reformed-theology.org/html/books/bolshevik_revolution/
Leon Trotsky, the founder and first leader of the Red Army, and
V.I. Lenin, the first Premier of the newly formed Soviet Union,
were the two main figures behind the Bolshevik Revolution.

And who was behind them?

Wall Street.

In this classic interview, Anthony Sutton makes clear the point
that the text books on history have been sanitized to hide Wall
Streets fingerprints in the creation of our old cold war enemy, the
Soviet Union.

He also makes it clear that they knew what they were doing...