About the book: 2013 / Collection of documents is dedicated to the most interesting period of Russian-German relations. It tells how the German government, burdened by a war on two fronts, relied on revolution in Russia and, on the initiative of the famous international revolutionary Alexander Parvus, launched a broad program of financing numerous groups of revolutionaries of the Russian Empire, including the Socialist Revolutionaries and Social Democrats, including Bolsheviks; about how the help of Germany, which was at war with Russia, was accepted and used by the revolutionaries. The uniqueness of the collection lies in the variety of materials and the wide coverage of the stated topic. The book is based on documents from the German Foreign Ministry, published in translation from German and English. The collection also includes articles by foreign and emigrant authors who lived abroad, as well as numerous primary sources from foreign archives related to the topic of “German money” and the Russian revolution of 1917. The editor-compiler and commentator of the collection is a famous scientist, author of a number of works on Russian history , Doctor of Historical Sciences Yuri Felshtinsky.