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This goes to multiple phenomena, the biggest of which was the opening to urban America and political machines to emigration from the Russian Empire. American industrial centers became flooded with Poles, Jews, and others who picked up on Anglo attitudes in this era of Anglophilia https://twitter.com/AugustvonMack/status/1326299766188367875
Read George Kennan Sr’s ”Siberia and the Exile system” Albert Beveridge’s “The Russian Advance” or the numerous Republican oriented conservative liberal papers like Puck to get an idea. Meanwhile Democrats built their northern strategy around those immigrant communities mentioned
So you get both sides of the 1880’s-1910’s Republican and Democratic establishment hostile to Russia for very different (but ultimately similar reasons.) This was aided along by emerging Wall Street names especially Schiff and Warburg, who both were overtly hostile to the Tsar.
Please read this important episode of the Abrogation of the Russo-American friendship treaty of 1832 and pay close attention to who wanted hostile relations with Russian Empire. You will see prominent donors to Wilson’s campaigns. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4465950
This does not have a Wikipedia page, it does not have a book dedicated to it, because it is perceived as not important. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015073406525
In fact, this was some of the larger concerns of the “Non interventionism” of Wilson, was American support of the Tsarist tyrant.
In fact, this was some of the larger concerns of the “Non interventionism” of Wilson, was American support of the Tsarist tyrant.
This episode of history has disappeared because it was bad to remember that this was the most prevalent attitude before&during 1917 when you need to argue for the necessity of the Cold War and the ideological obligation of opposing USSR as a test for average American Patriotism.
