Is it true?

[Trotsky.jr]

Is it true that Stalin executes the all the members of the political bureau, which existed during the time of the Russian revolution and if its true please don’t forget to attach some links for evidence.

Thank you.

[Enragé]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Bolsheviks

[Trotsky.jr]

So did he really kill all the political bureau members?

[chimx]

No, they still get together for golf on the 2nd and 4th friday of every month, weather permitting.

[barista.marxista]

The real question is: who fucking cares? Does it matter to anyone today? The whole My dead Lennie is better than your dead Lennie game is so tired. Why not focus on something productive for your action now?

But shit: second AND fourth Fridays? No wonder they're so ahead of me with their game! ;)

[Scars]

Of course he didn't. The ones that didn't oppose him aided him in his purges in fact. Stalin did have a great deal of support within the party, plus he knew how to use the system to his advantage.

[The Feral Underclass]

Can people please be a little more respectiful towards people's questions. It's irrelevant whether or not people think it's important. Anyone is entitled to enquire and ask questions about what ever they want and I would appreciate not having to see sarcasm.

[ComradeOm]

Originally posted by Trotsky[email protected] 18 2006, 12:34 PM
Is it true that Stalin executes the all the members of the political bureau, which existed during the time of the Russian revolution and if its true please don’t forget to attach some links for evidence.

Thank you.
Those that disagreed with him and his leadership were usually exiled while the more serious threats (Trotsky springs to mind) were killed. By the late 30s this was most of the pre-Revolution party leadership. This Communist Party was very different from the Bolshevik Party.

[321zero]

Old Bols - 1917 Central Committee


1917 Polibureau

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin - Died 1924
Leon Trotsky - Assassinated 1940
Grigory Zinoviev - Executed 1936
Lev Kamenev - Executed 1936
Josef Stalin - Died 1953
Grigory Sokolnikov - Executed 1939
Andrey Bubnov - Died in Prison 1940


1917 Central Committee

Alexandre Kollontai - Died 1953
Nicholai Bukharin - Executed 1938
Yakov Sverdlov - Died 1919 (Typhus)
V P Nogin - Died 1926
Alexei Rykov - Executed 1938
Artem Sergeyev - Died 1921 (Train crash)
Y Miliutin - Um, removed from CC 1932, can't find details of eventual fate.
Felix Dzerzhinsky - Died 1926
Leonid Petrovich Serebryakov - Executed 1937
Ivars Smilga - Executed 1938
Jan Karlovich Berzin - Executed 1935
Nikolai Krestinsky - Executed 1938
M K Muranov - Died 1959
Stepan Shaumian - Executed by Whites 1918
Moisei Uritsky - Assasination by "young student" in 1918 led to Red Terror.
Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko - Executed 1939

Candidate members of CC

Elena Stasova - Died 1966
George Lomov (Oppokov) - Um
Adolf Joffe - Suicide after Trotsky expulsion from CC 1927.
Alexey S Kiselev - Executed 1937
Prokopius Dzhaparidze - Executed by Whites 1918
Yevgeny Preobrazhensky - Died in prison 1937
Varvara Nikolayevna Yakovleva - Executed 1944 (Possibly 1941?)

Edit - info found mostly through Marxist Internet Archive (http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/marxists/cd/cd2/Library/subject/bolsheviks/index.htm)

[Trotsky.jr]

Thank you very much comrade, thats exactly what I was looking for.