Pivovarov Nikita Yurievich
– Ph.D. in history сhief researcher of the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History
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Example Taken from the “Old Guard’s” Life: the Old Bolsheviks Society as an Experience of Revolutionaries’ Adaptation (1922–1935)
The article analyzed the main problems of formation and functioning of the Society of old Bolsheviks. This organization united almost the entire political elite of post-revolutionary Soviet Russia. The article reveals the reasons for the establishment of the corporation in 1922, analyze its structure, social composition, as well as key activities (cultural, educational, publishing and social). The publication makes special emphasis on the role of the organization and its members in the political processes of the 1920s – the first half of the 1930-ies, a hypothesis was propos about the causes of the Society's abolition in 1935.Keywords: the society of old Bolsheviks; the Central Committee of the RCP(b); the political elite; Stalin.
