ABSTRACT
Through Alfred Rosenberg and his friends National Socialism accepted a concept of Bolshevism that had evolved not in Germany but, somewhat ironically, in Russia itself before the revolution and during the civil war. His early writings on Russia were essentially the German version of the Black Hundred doctrine of the Russian Revolution, its causes and effects. At the time of the revolution Vladimir Purishkevich tried to rally a few of his old comrades to organize a counter-revolution, but it was a vain attempt. The Union of the Russian People had no systematic doctrine or programme; ideologically, the Russian extreme right was even weaker than its counterparts elsewhere in Europe. Communism, in Nazi eyes, was a world conspiracy of revolutionary Judaeo-Masonic forces engineered by the hidden hand of the Elders of Zion.
