Old Bolshevik (Russian: ста́рый большеви́к) is an unofficial designation for a member of the Bolshevik party before the Russian Revolution of 1917. Bolshevik Party Meeting. ... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ...

Joseph Stalin removed many of the Old Bolsheviks from power during the Great Purges of the 1930s. The most prominent survivor in the Communist Party was Vyacheslav Molotov. Most were executed for treason after show trials; some were sent to labor camps (the Gulag); and a few, such as Alexandra Kollontai were sent abroad as ambassadors, preventing them from participating in the central government. Many communist opponents of Stalin, most notably the Trotskyists, cite this fact in support of their argument that Stalin betrayed the aims of the revolution for his own gain. “Stalin” redirects here. ... The Great Purge is the name given to campaigns of repression in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s which included a purge of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. ... Face The 1930s (years from 1930–1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known in Europe as the World Depression. ... The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: Коммунисти́ческая Па́ртия Сове́тского Сою́за = КПСС) was the name used by the successors of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party from 1952 to 1991, but the wording Communist Party was present in the partys name since 1918 when the Bolsheviks became the Russian... For other uses, see Molotov (disambiguation). ... Traitor redirects here. ... The term show trial serves most commonly to label a type of public trial in which the judicial authorities have already determined the guilt of the accused: the actual trial has as its only goal to present the accusation and the verdict to the public as an impressive example and... A labor camp is a simplified detention facility where inmates are engaged in penal labor. ... Gulag ( , Russian: ) was the government body responsible for administering prison camps across the former Soviet Union. ... Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (Алекса́ндра Миха́йловна Коллонта́й — born Domontovich, Домонто́вич) (March 31 [O.S. March 19] 1872 - March 9, 1952) was a Russian Communist revolutionary, first as a member of the Mensheviks, then from 1914 on as a Bolshevik. ... An ambassador, rarely embassador, is a diplomatic official accredited to a foreign sovereign or government, or to an international organization, to serve as the official representative of his or her own country. ... This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ... Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ...

In a narrower sense, the term "Old Bolshevik", as well as the expression Bolshevik Old Guard (Russian: ста́рая большеви́стская гва́рдия), was also a self-description of Bolshevik leaders who opposed Leon Trotsky immediately after the October Revolution of 1917. This use alluded to Trotsky's siding with the Mensheviks against Vladimir Lenin until he joined the Bolsheviks in 1917.   (Russian: Лев Давидович Троцкий, Lyov Davidovich Trotsky, also transliterated Leo, Lev, Trotskii, Trotski, Trotskij, Trockij and Trotzky) (November 7 [O.S. October 26] 1879 – August 21, 1940), born. ... Leaders of the Menshevik Party at Norra Bantorget in Stockholm, Sweden, May 1917. ... “Lenin” redirects here. ...

Various things in the Soviet Union, such as a publishing house, several steamships, motorboats, kolkhozes and settlements, were given the name Old Bolshevik^{[citation needed]}. 1. ... Paddle steamers - Lucerne-Switzerland Left: original paddlewheel from a paddle steamer on the lake of Lucerne. ... A 1962 Rebel. A wooden speedboat with an outboard engine. ... A kolkhoz (Russian: IPA: ), plural kolkhozy, was a form of collective farming in the Soviet Union that existed along with state farms (sovkhoz). ... Ronda, Spain Main street in Bastrop, Texas, a small town A town is a community of people ranging from a few hundred to several thousands, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas. ...