Old Bolshevik

Russian history

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Great Purge

  • Joseph Stalin
    In Great Purge

    …1930s, in which many prominent Old Bolsheviks were found guilty of treason and executed or imprisoned. All the evidence presented in court was derived from preliminary examinations of the defendants and from their confessions. It was subsequently established that the accused were innocent, that the cases were fabricated by the…

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Politburo

  • In Politburo

    ) The Old Bolshevik ideologues who sat in the early Soviet Politburo by the late 1980s had been replaced by party members with some technical training and records of long and loyal service in the bureaucracy.

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