Sergei Kirov
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Sergei Mironovich Kirov was a Russian and Soviet politician and Bolshevik revolutionary. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and a member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Soc
Kirov c. 1930s
Kirov as a child, 1893
Kirov (right) with Felix Dzerzhinsky in Leningrad, 1926
Kirov at the 17th Congress of the Communist Party in 1934
Old Bolsheviks
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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.
Sergei Kirov
…was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and a member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. Kirov became an Old Bolshevik and personal friend to Joseph Stalin, rising through the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ranks to become head of the party in Leningrad and a member…
A door sign of the Society of Old Bolsheviks
The founders of the Bolshevik faction at the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP (1903)