# The Crony Capitalists Who Financed the Bolshevik Revolution

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Published: 2026-09-16T13:33:02+00:00
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Lenin wrote that the capitalists would provide the rope by which they would hang themselves. That certainly seems to be the case with the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, which received strong financial help from the center of crony capitalism itself: Wall Street. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/crony-capitalists-who-financed-bolshevik-revolution

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