[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Meaning of national bourgeois

[jackmilner]

Here are my thoughts:

In 1918 The Bolsheviks had become the political  power in Russia and I think the
context of Bourgeois would equate to Capitalist.  Thus, the accusation of
National Bourgeois would imply something opposite in philosophy to Socialism with
ethnic and/or non Russian overtones.  Capitalism is definitely not something the
Soviets would be promoting in those early days of Communism.  Repression by the
Bolsheviks would fall into the category of excluding ideals unacceptable to them.

Jack Milner



Donald Miller wrote:

> I am researching the files of repressed German Baptist pastors in the State
> Archives in Zhitomir.  On a number of occasions I have come across the
> accusation "national bourgeois," also "world bourgeois."  What is the meaning
> of these terms as they apply to the repression of the German colonists by the
> Soviet regime.
>
> don miller
>
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