The Old Bolsheviks, 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 October Revolution of 1917.
A door sign of the Society of Old Bolsheviks
The founders of the Bolshevik faction at the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP (1903)
The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, were a radical faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903. The Bolshevik
Old Bolsheviks
…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 October Revolution of 1917. Many Old Bolsheviks became leading politicians and…
Bolshevik Party meeting, 1920: sitting (from left to right) are Yenukidze, Kalinin, Bukharin, Tomsky, Lashevich, Kamenev, Preobrazhensky, Serebryakov, Lenin, and Rykov in front.
Bolshevik, Boris Kustodiev, 1920
Leon Trotsky, Vladimir Lenin, and Lev Kamenev
"Down with Bolshevism. Bolshevism brings war and destruction, hunger and death", anti-Bolshevik German propaganda, 1919