Bolsheviks

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Bolsheviks is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between June 10, 2021 and July 22, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as “whose parents were murdered by the Bolsheviks”; “The Bolsheviks created a professional revolutionary class that successfully seized power”. It most often appears alongside Scott, United States, 1984.

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  • Category: Concepts
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: June 10, 2021
  • Last seen: July 22, 2022

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

June 10, 2021 · Original source
Orwell and Boris share a pretty cute bromance for most of the Parisian section, spending nights together in terrible cheap rooms, discussing their future prospects. Usually, Boris(a Russian expat whose parents were murdered by the Bolsheviks) serves as the brains of the operation:
July 22, 2022 · Original source
The Bolsheviks created a professional revolutionary class that successfully seized power, but it came at the cost of a top-down totalitarianism that recreated the rigid hierarchy communism was meant to eliminate.