How many Old Bolsheviks outlived Stalin?
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How can you answer a sad question like this? Maybe by the words of Alexander Barmine:
When I work on my book, I feel as though I were walking in a graveyard. All my friends and life associates have been shot. It seems to be some kind of a mistake that I am alive.
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One example:
Molotov was an old Bolshevik, and a prominent figure. He lived until 1986!
There must be some who survived through the 90's.
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For "top of the pile", Wiki claims that
- 58% of the 1917 Party Central Committee was eliminated by 1938.
- 63% of the first Bolshevik government was executed by that time.
- Out of 267 1917-1934 Central Committee members, 34 died before 1937, 36 survived the Purge, the rest (74%) were executed.
Of course, the "rank and file" Old Bolsheviks (the definition changed in time - from joining before 1904, to joining before 1917, to having been in the party for 18+ years) suffered less than the top crust (just like in the military: 60% of Marshals executed, but fewer than half the Comandarms).
The point is that everyone who had their own opinion instead of being Stalin's puppet was killed, and those on the top are also more likely to have their own opinion.
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