On 7 November 1917, the Bolsheviks took power in Russia, transforming it into the Soviet Union. As a particularly violent faction of Russian Marxism, the Bolsheviks-led by Jewish radicals like Vladimir Lenin (quarter-Jew), Leon Trotsky, Lev Kamenev, and Yakov Sverdlov-initiated a Russian civil war that killed at least 10 million Russians in the next five years. They then consolidated power and began to plan for a global export of communism, beginning with Europe.
 
In the wake of the Russian Revolution, Westerners were at once astonished and alarmed that a minority ethnicity like the Jews could dominate the Russian nation. The Jewishness of leading Bolsheviks was clear, but the bulk of the Soviet power structure remained largely opaque; hence, the true extent of Jewish power there was a matter of frequent debate and speculation, on through the 1920s and 1930s.
 
With Hitler coming to power in 1933 and anti-Bolshevism (and anti-Semitism) becoming leading topics of interest, the question became all-the-more urgent: Who were the rulers of Russia? Thus it fell to an Irish Catholic priest named Denis Fahey to conduct a thorough investigation into the matter; he was determined to compile the best, most authoritative sources on this question. And all agreed: Jews were, by far, the dominant factor in Soviet Bolshevism.
 
The result of Fahey's research was the present booklet, initially published in 1938, but undergoing two enlargements in quick succession. Though long forgotten, Fahey's book is reprinted here, in a clear and crisp new edition, as a permanent record of Jewish power in Soviet Russia through World War Two.
 
The Rulers of Russia is a meticulously documented investigation into the ethnic composition of the Bolshevik leadership that seized power in 1917 and ruled the Soviet Union through its formative decades. Drawing on Soviet press reports, Western diplomatic records, and firsthand accounts from journalists who lived through the Revolution, Father Denis Fahey compiles the definitive case for Jewish overrepresentation at every level of the early Soviet state.
 
The book presents the original sources that led figures from the Times of London to Vladimir Putin himself to acknowledge that Jews constituted 80–85 percent of the first Soviet government. Fahey provides name-by-name breakdowns of the Council of People’s Commissars, the Central Executive Committee, the Cheka, and hundreds of lesser functionaries, with citations that allow the reader to verify each claim independently.
 
This edition has been reorganized for modern readers, with standardized spellings, updated transliterations, and a new introduction that contextualizes the work’s enduring relevance. Appendices cover Jewish political influence across Europe and offer detailed biographical notes on key figures such as Litvinov and Trotsky.
 
For anyone seeking to understand who actually controlled the Russian Revolution and its aftermath, The Rulers of Russia by Rev. Denis Fahey remains the single most important reference work in English. Essential reading for students of Soviet history, the Jewish Question, and the intersection of ethnicity and political power.