"All my friends were the children of old Bolsheviks," she said.

"Old Bolsheviks" who had been members of the Party in 1917 were especially targeted.

Like those old Bolsheviks, he and millions of students threw themselves into what they thought was a just cause in their idealistic youth.

These old Bolsheviks had long ago cut themselves off from humanity outside Russia.

For the old Bolsheviks, imperceptibly, the political terrain was shifting.

Like Christians joining a religious order, some old Bolsheviks changed their names.

Elderly volunteers come and go, known fondly as "old Bolsheviks."

He was one of the few Old Bolsheviks who died of natural causes.

It tells of an old Bolshevik's last weeks trying to come to terms with the unintended results of the revolution he helped create.

"An old Bolshevik never admits to pain."