Old Bolshevik

noun

A member of the Bolsheviks whose party membership dated to before the October Revolution.

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nounOld Bolshevik (plural Old Bolsheviks)

plural Old Bolsheviks

  1. historicalA member of the Bolsheviks whose party membership dated to before the October Revolution.

    There was no active opposition to the adored dictator, but there were many in the party, especially Old Bolsheviks, who paid him due honour but were not bound to him heart and soul.

    1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 80
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