Hur påverkades då den ryska revolutionen av Illuminati? Den kontroversielle författaren Jüri Lina har menat att Bolsjevismen hade sitt ursprung ur någon obskyr rysk Frimurareloge.
Finns det någon grund i detta? Historiker menar att Bolsjevismens ursprung är knutet till ryska politiska rörelser i början av 1900-talet snarare än en specifik frimurarloge. Historiker menar även att medan vissa revolutionärer hade kopplingar till frimurarkretsar, uppstod bolsjevismen främst ur marxistisk ideologi och ryska socialistiska traditioner.
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Barbara Stanisławczyk skriver: "The revolution in Russia was not conceived among workers and peasants, as it has been accepted in popular historiography. It was a project with intelligentsia roots and an esoteric background."
"At the beginning of 1917, after Rasputin’s death, 'his spirit is still being called in the Spiritist circles and in the Martinist lodges, where Protopopov, Minister of the Interior, Dobrovsky, Minister of Justice, and Prince Kuriakin indulged in these practices every night. All this is a cover for the work taking place in the Masonic lodges, where the originators of the revolution: Miliukov and Kerensky operated.'(citing P. Virion)"
https://centrum.tdb.uw.edu.pl/the-occultist-background-of-bolshevism/
Vidare skriver Barbara T. Norton i samma ämne:
"Few problems in modern Russian history are more complex or more bewildering than that of political Masonry" "political Masonry was first mentioned in the historiography on the February Revolution only in the early 1930's.3 Then, for nearly three decades, scholars simply ignored the problem altogether."
"Yet there exists some evidence that the organization actually emerged before that, possibly as early as 1901 or 1902. Thus Kuskova, who was one of its founders, maintains that the political Masonic organization originated just after the turn of the century, and that it was created by the same individuals who subsequently founded the Union of Liberation (Soiuz osvobozhdeniia), the organization of Russian liberals and radicals which was instrumental in bringing about the 1905 Revolution. According to Kuskova, in addition to herself and her husband, S. N. Prokopovich, the founding members of political Masonry included the radicals N. A. Berdiaev, S. N. Bulgakov, S. L. Frank, B. A. Kistiakovskii, P. B. Struve and V. V. Vodovozov, as well as the liberals Prince Petr D. Dolgorukov, I. M. Grevs, S. A. Kotliarevskii, N. N. Kovalevskii, N. N. L'vov, P. I. Novgorodtsev, 1.1. Petrunkevich, A. S. Petrunkevich, P. I. Rodichev, Prince D. I. Shakhovskoi, V. I. Vernadskii and D. E. Zhukovskii."
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0020859000007641
Frågan är vilka dessa frimurarorganisationer var, när de grundades och vilken härkomst de hade. Det är känt att det svenska systemet spred sig österut till Ryssland tidigt, kan dessa varit inblandade eller var det tyska loger?