With the help of the rehabilitated Bolsheviks the assault on Petrograd was stopped. Nevertheless, Kerensky's authority greatly suffered. "We old men may not live to see the battles of the upcoming ...

Instead they read 3,000 rather turgid words opening with the sentence: STALIN (Djugashvili) Joseph Vissarionovich (born in 1879), an Old Bolshevik,* a professional revolutionist, V. I. Lenin’s ...

These cumulative changes in the state structure, the social function of many “Old” Bolsheviks, and the overall position of the working class ultimately found political expression. As Trotsky ...

Lenin’s adoption of Trotsky’s perspective was bitterly opposed by many “Old Bolsheviks,” including Stalin. Prior to Lenin’s return to Russia in April 1917, the position taken by Stalin ...

In contrast they warned that the White Armies and their leaders would destroy all the achievements of the Revolution, break up the Soviets and bring back the old system. The Bolsheviks portrayed ...