For other uses, see Old Bolshevik (disambiguation).
The founders of the Bolshevik faction at the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP (1903)Geneva Group of Bolsheviks (1904–1905)
The Old Bolsheviks (Russian: ста́рый большеви́к, romanized: stary bolshevik), also called the Old Bolshevik Guard or Old Party Guard, were members of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917. Many Old Bolsheviks became leading politicians and bureaucrats in the Soviet Union and the ruling Communist Party. While some died over the years from natural causes, many were removed from power, imprisoned in gulags or executed in the late 1930s, as a result of the Great Purge by Joseph Stalin.
The OldBolsheviks (Russian: ста́рый большеви́к, romanized: stary bolshevik), also called the OldBolshevik Guard or Old Party Guard, were members of the...
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concluded that unity between the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks was impossible and joined the Bolsheviks. Trotsky played a leading role with Lenin in the...
of the CPSU's oldBolshevik legacy into the present day. 16 August 1917 – 8 March 1918: Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) (Russian: Российская...
intercept him at the Kremlin. Stalin's death prevented a final purge of OldBolsheviks Mikoyan and Molotov, for which Stalin had been laying the groundwork...
Lenin and the Bolsheviks. During 1903 and 1904, many members changed sides in the factions. Plekhanov soon parted ways with the Bolsheviks. Trotsky left...
Vladimir Lenin's "Bolsheviks" and Julius Martov's "Mensheviks". Stalin detested many Mensheviks in Georgia and aligned himself with the Bolsheviks. Although he...
October] 1873 – 31 December 1966) was a Russian Soviet revolutionary, OldBolshevik and an early leader of the organisation that would go on to become the...
Russian; Bolsheviks); in response, Martov termed his followers the "minoritarians" (men'sheviki in Russian; Mensheviks). Arguments between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks...
Labour Party in 1898, and after it split into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions in 1903, he joined the Bolsheviks, which were led by Vladimir Lenin. He played...
chief Genrikh Yagoda began the removal of the central party leadership, OldBolsheviks, government officials, and regional party bosses. Soviet politicians...
uprisings against the Bolsheviks and widespread peasant rebellions was an external and internal war which transformed Bolshevik Russia into the Russian...
was stopped at the border. He was arrested along with other suspected Bolsheviks during the subsequent crackdown by the Russian Provisional Government...
appealed to Zinoviev's and Kamenev's devotion to the Soviet Union as oldBolsheviks and advised them that Trotsky was fomenting anti-Soviet sentiment amongst...
demonstrated ideological and patriotic support for the ideology of the Bolsheviks and a strong admiration of Vladimir Lenin, his relationship with the Soviet...
Dmitri Ilyich Ulyanov (Russian: Дми́трий Ильи́ч Улья́нов; 16 August [O.S. 4 August] 1874 – 16 July 1943) was a Russian and Soviet physician and revolutionary...
party, the RSDLP split in 1903 into Bolsheviks ("majority") and Mensheviks ("minority") factions, with the Bolshevik faction eventually becoming the Communist...
published in 1940. His best known work, it is the tale of Rubashov, an OldBolshevik who is arrested, imprisoned, and tried for treason against the government...
power by the Bolsheviks, Dzerzhinsky eagerly assumed responsibility for making security arrangements at the Smolny Institute where the Bolsheviks had their...
acting on the orders from Stalin, he had accomplished liquidation of OldBolsheviks and other potentially "disloyal elements" or "fifth columnists" within...
Soviet of workers' and soldiers' deputies to represent the Bolsheviks." After the Bolsheviks seized power in Petrograd (St Petersburg) in November 1917...
where he learnt about the split between the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions, and joined the Bolsheviks. Arrested in February 1904, he was held in prison...
Molotov "dragged his feet" over Stalin's plans to purge the party and put OldBolsheviks like Zinoviev and Kamenev on trial. After his return to favor, in August...
complicate matters further, the Bolsheviks themselves were divided into a right wing and a left wing. The right-wing of the Bolsheviks, including Aleksei Rykov...
May [O.S. 7 May] 1877 – 30 October 1937) was a prominent Georgian "OldBolshevik" and, at one point, a member of the Central Committee of the All-Union...
Nikolay Mikhailovich Matveyev (Russian: Николай Михайлович Матвеев) (May 22, 1877, village Bogdat, Nerchinsko-Zavodsky uezd, Transbaikal – April 26, 1951...
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