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| | Bolshevik Opposition to Lenin: G. T. Miasnikov and the Workers' Group |
 | | Joining hands in the venture were P. Moiseev, a Bolshevik since 1914, and N. Kuznetsov, the former Workers' Oppositionist who, we have seen, had been expelled from the party at the Eleventh Congress for his role in the Appeal of the Twenty-Two. | | | He was high-minded, independent, implacable, a stormy petrel of revolutionary militancy who, with his long hair and beard and piercing eyes, combined the qualities of a tough labor activist with those of a visionary and romantic. | | | The Politburo, however, added the proviso that, should Miasnikov reform his ways, he might apply for readmission after a year.(42) For the first time, then, the penalty prescribed by the Tenth Congress for factionalism had been imposed. |
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| | Genocides Museum: the "Red Holocaust" has been ignored by the West, but the archives are now being opened. ... |
| | The old criminal underworld of Tsarist Russia, which since the Time of Troubles had developed as an extraordinary milieu with its own dialect and its own law, had been greatly reinforced, and its character much modified, by the tumults of the Civil War and the famine of the early l920s. | | | Lenin himself was forced to admit toward the end of his life that the Bolsheviks, too, were guilty of ignoring the cultural realities of Russia and its unpreparedness for the economic and social order that they tried to impose on it. | | | The point being perhaps, rather, that twelve years old was the limit the Party felt was overtly defensible. |
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| | International Socialist Review |
| | Sukhanov writes in his memoirs that the Bolshevik Party was finished. | | | But at the second Congress of the Soviets, which met in October, there were only 70 to 80 Menshevik delegates as against 300 Bolsheviks. | | | In June the Mensheviks elected 248 delegates to the first Congress of the Soviets, whereas the Bolsheviks managed to elect only 105. |
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| | Eisenstein's October by Murray Sperber |
| | This dialectic will soon resolve in a Bolshevik majority at the Congress and in the country. | | | Antonov at the Ministers’ table: with emphatic sweeps of his arm, he knocks away various ministerial paraphernalia in order to clear a space to write (just as the Bolsheviks were sweeping away the old order and clearing a space for themselves in Russian and world politics). | | | The soldier delegates jeer and one shouts, “Down with the valets of the bourgeoisie.” Then the presidium running the Congress, mainly Mensheviks and Soviet Revolutionaries, is voted down and leaves the dais. |
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| | H.6.16 How do the modern followers of Bolshevism slander the makhnovists? |
| | He portrayed the Makhnovists as the guilty party, "breaking" with the Bolsheviks when in fact it was (in both cases) the Bolsheviks who broke with and betrayed the Makhnovists. | | | Delegates also complained that the Bolshevik government had not been elected, that it was "imposing upon us its party dictatorship" and "attempting to introduce its Bolshevik monopoly over the soviets." [quoted by Palij, [Op. | | | On June 9th, Makhno sent a telegram informing the Bolsheviks that he was leaving his post as leader of the Makhnovists. |
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http://www.nestormakhno.info/english/makfaq/h_6_15.htm
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| | LeonTrotsky: The Lessons of October |
| | The revolution caused political shifts to take place in two directions: the reactionaries became Cadets and the Cadets became republicans against their own wishes—a purely formal shift to the left; the Social Revolutionaries and the Mensheviks became the ruling bourgeois party—a shift to the right. | | | If parliamentarism served the proletariat to a certain extent as a training school for revolution, then it also served the bourgeoisie to a far greater extent as the school of counterrevolutionary strategy. | | | And almost immediately after the departure of Dan and his comrades from the Winter Palace, Minister Kartashev, on his way home from a session of the Provisional Government, was arrested on Milliony street and taken directly to Smolny, whither Dan was returning to resume his peaceful conversations with the Bolsheviks. |
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http://www.marxist.net/trotsky/russia/lessons.htm
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| | Leon Sedov: Red Book (Chap.6) |
| | Sharov, old worker-Bolshevik, Zinovievist, sentenced to eight years in prison in the first Zinoviev trial; | | | Hertzberg, old party member, sentenced in the first Zinoviev trial; | | | Anishev, sentenced to six years in prison in the first Zinoviev trial; |
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http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/sedov/works/red/ch06.htm
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| | ECHOS OF SPAIN The Makhnovists entered into treaties with the Bolsheviks three times in order to maintain a stronger united front against the Whites and nationalists. | | | In any case it was soon absorbed by the Supreme Economic Council set up in November 1917 which was attached to the Council of Peoples Commissars, itself entirely made up of Bolshevik party members. | | | This was the justification of the suppression of all rivals in 1918 for the Bolsheviks and for the closing down of factions in the party from 1918 to 1921. |
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| | At the law school in St. Petersburg, it is known that the Georgians were among the most radical. | | | The biographer of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, J.C. Wise, wrote: "Historians must never forget that Woodrow Wilson made it possible for Leon Trotsky to enter Russia with an American passport." | | | Trotsky was never popular with Bolshevik Party members, who saw him as an opportunist. |
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http://www.geocities.com/redcomrades/chap12.html
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| | Old Bolshevik - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | An Old Bolshevik (Russian: старый большевик) is an unofficial designation of a member of the Bolshevik party before the Russian Revolution of 1917. | | | Joseph Stalin removed nearly all Old Bolsheviks from power during the Great Purges of the 1930s. | | | Various things such as a publishing house, several steamships, motorboats, kolkhozes and settlements were given the name "Old Bolshevik" in the Soviet Union. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Bolsheviks
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| | From "The Bolshevik Party and 'Zinovievism': Comments on a caricature of Leninism" |
| | At the Third Congress of the RSDLP, which was attended only by Bolsheviks, on the initiative of Lenin a resolution was adopted expelling all the Mensheviks -- several hundred RSDLP members at the very least. | | | It is like being excommunicated from the Catholic Church--probably worse. | | | : After the Bolsheviks constituted themselves as the RSDLP in 1912, they rejected the idea that minorities had a right to use the public press to criticise the majority position. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/organization/Lorimer2.htm
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| | The Degeneration of the Soviet Secret Police - From Guardians to Executioners |
| | The first head of the Cheka (which in 1922 was reorganized as the ‘‘State Political Administration’’ or GPU) was Felix Dzerzhinsky, a Polish intellectual and a founding member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL). | | | He led the Cheka until his death in 1926. | | | Kirov, an Old Bolshevik who had supported Stalin in the factional struggles of the 1920s, was considered a liberal within the bureaucracy. |
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| | Three worlds and the price of paradise - The Washington Times: Commentary |
| | She was 34 years old and had never left the convent. | | | Nikolai I. Bukharin was an old Bolshevik, a member of the Politburo in the 1920s, chief editor of Izvestiia, a major Marxist theoretician, and onetime personal friend of Josef Stalin. | | | When brought before a plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in February-March 1937, he vehemently denied charges of "treason," "sabotage" and "terrorism." Expelled from the Central Committee and the party, he was imprisoned, confessed to his crimes, and was tried in March 1938. |
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| | Smirnov: head of the famous Fifth Army during the civil war; called the "Lenin of Siberia;" a member of the Bolshevik party for decades. | | | Mrachkovsky: defender of Ekaterinoslav from the interventionist Czechs and the White troop during the civil war. | | | Zinoviev: 35 years of his life in the Bolshevik party; Lenin's closest collaborator in exile and nominated by him as first chairman of the Communist International; chairman of the Petrograd Soviet for years; member of the Central Committee and the Political Bureau of the C.P. for years. |
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| | The assassination of Sergei Kirov: A tale for our times |
| | Contrary to his final wishes, Stalin, rather than being relieved of any influence, had remained on the Central Committee and had consolidated his autocratic rule. | | | He was born in Urzhum, Russia, on 15 March, 1886. | | | Under his patronage a new caste of bureaucrats – careerists with little or no experience of the underground struggle – had captured control of party and the state and had marginalised the remaining Old Bolsheviks with their orthodox Marxism and liberal social values. |
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http://www.brushtail.com.au/july_04_on/kirov_assassination.html
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| | Amazon.com: The Gates of November: Books |
| | Disowned by his father, Volodya was later exiled to Siberia as a dissident. | | | Solomon Slepak was an old-guard Bolshevik who never lost his faith in the party?and survived the Stalinist purges miraculously and mysteriously (Stalin exterminated almost all old party members). | | | The first generation was an old Bolshevik who commanded a division of the Red Army in the Far East during the Russian Civil War, and often met Stalin for press briefings in the 30�s. |
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| | Victor Serge and |
| | This dispute concerned the 1920 uprising against the Bolsheviks by the garrison at Kronstadt. | | | His imprisonment by Stalin, his release as a result of the public outcry in France, and his eloquent defense of the men who led the revolution and were now being disgraced by Stalin; all combined to make him an archetype of the “Old Bolshevik” oppositionist. | | | All parties and tendencies during the civil war were split between those who supported the revolution and those who chose counterrevolution. |
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| | THE REVOLUTION BETRAYED |
| | In March 1921, in the days of the Kronstadt revolt, which attracted into its ranks no small number of Bolsheviks, the 10th Congress of the party thought it necessary to resort to a prohibition of factions—that is, to transfer the political regime prevailing in the state to the inner life of the ruling party. | | | The chief merit of a Bolshevik was declared to be obedience. | | | Why is it that any Bolshevik who should demand a calling of the congress of the party in accordance with its constitution would be immediately expelled, any citizen who expressed out loud a doubt of the infallibility of Stalin would be tried and convicted almost as though a participant in a terrorist plot? |
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| | He was an intimate friend of Krassin, an old Bolshevik, who was simultaneously Commissar of Railroads and Communications and Commissar of Commerce and Industry. | | | Solomon presented an interesting case of an `old Bolshevik' who was fundamentally opposed to Lenin's&; project, but who chose to disrupt and `distort' it from the inside. | | | Solomon was a Bolshevik Party cadre, named in July 1919 assistant to the People's Commissar for Commerce and Industry. |
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| | The Center for Thaw Studies - from SovLit.com |
| | Even the bigwig's own son--a representative of the younger generation--promises to wage tireless war on his father and all like him. | | | The bigwig engages in an arbitrary injustice and plots to ruin the career of an innocent man. The Old Bolshevik uncovers the plot and banishes his son. | | | Intergenerational conflict centered around an honest Old Bolshevik and his adult son, who has become an arrogant, corrupt, materialistic bigwig, interested only in his position and comfort. |
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| | ipedia.com: Old Bolshevik Article |
| | An Old Bolshevik was a member of the Bolsheviks at the time of the Russian Revolution. | | | Josef Stalin removed all Old Bolsheviks from power during the Great Purges of the 1930s, except for Vyacheslav Molotov and Stalin himself. | | | Most were executed for treason after mock trials, some were sent to gulags in Siberia, and a few (e.g., Alexandra Kollontai) were sent abroad as ambassadors, effectively preventing them from participating in the central government. |
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| | Sample text for Library of Congress control number 99020438 |
| | "He'll intercede for the little fool, go on about his old mother and his worker-peasant background. | | | He lost his peace of mind, and from his place in the astral plane he would often catch himself thinking, not of the nature of time, as was his habit, but of something very different. |
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| | The New York Review of Books: THE REAL BOLSHEVIST |
| | Those few Bolsheviks who occasionally dreamt aloud of a "second revolution" in the countryside were generally regarded by the major protagonists as the party's resident mad hatters. | | | In his "Happy Birthday" reflections on the Bolshevik revolution (NYR, Nov. 9, 1967), Mr. | | | Other people's opinions are always "provocative." It is only one's own views that are sober and statesmanlike, and based on serious study of the entire evidence. |
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| | Nicola di Bartolomeo |
| | The three telegrams sent by us to the Old Man never received a reply. | | | Nor was Nin any more ignorant of our plans, and, to tell the truth, during the first two months of the civil war he never personally declared himself against the entry of the Bolshevik-Leninists into the POUM, nor against the Fourth International, to which he was closer than he was to the London Bureau. | | | Because of his status as a sympathiser, Péret took no part in this meeting. |
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| | AEI - Short Publications |
| | Examining the World Health Organization's (WHO) "3 by 5" initiative in the Health Policy Outlook, no. 3 of 2006, Roger Bate discusses the organization's unrealistic expectation to have had 3 million HIV-infected people in low- and middle-income countries treated for AIDS by the end of 2005. | | | Home > Short Publications > Enough to Break an Old Bolshevik's Heart |
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