Question by Pascha: During the Russian Revolution, what happened to middle level civil servants of the Tsarist regime?
I was once told be someone who was there that there was a lot of anger against school teachers and others who had been paid by the Tsarist regime. Is that what happened, or were most of those people absorbed as new Communist functionaries?
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Answer by Jim L
Quite a lot of them were absorbed.
School teachers, then as now, were not anywhere near the point of the pyramid.
what is more, then as now, a lot of teachers had leftist sympathies.
Answer by Tony, a typical white person
the ones that gave in were absorbed and those who didn’t were murdered or sent to slave labor camps like everyone else that wouldn’t join the Communists.
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KarenL says
This is a good question for today’s middle level civil servants with respect to the up-coming election.
Many civil servants, who obtained their jobs due to the Tsarist regime were ruthlessly shot or starved between 1917 – 1925. Some changed stripes and became dyed in the wool Bolshevik and took as much revenge on anyone who could poise as a threat to their lives.
By the death of Felix Dzerzhinsky (1926) most Tsarist civil servants were purged and replaced by party indoctrination agents in schools and hospitals .
Thinking out loud could (and often did) get a bullet in a person’s brain.
If everyone was equal and all property belonged to the state, there were incentives to report anyone who was/acted/dressed better than another. Survival behavior was adopted. Look at recent reports on how people survived Pol Pot in Cambodia. Pretend you could not read, remove glasses, stop eating ot lose weight fast and wear rags as soon as possible.
Learn from history — we are about to repeat it.