Bitsenko returned to Russia and continued her party activities . Being strongly opposed to the rupture with the Bolsheviks , in September 1918 she was a founder of the splinter Party of Revolutionary Communism , whereas in November she took the plunge and entered the Bolsheviks ' renamed Russian Communist Party , later holding various political and committee positions in the Soviet Union . After the death of Lenin , widespread purges were extended to the ranks of the Communist Party by the new Soviet supreme leader Joseph Stalin , and she became one of the many targets . Accused of being a member of a terrorist organization she was put on trial and sentenced to death . On 16 June 1938 she was shot and buried in Kommunarka . The Soviet authorities acquitted her posthumously in 1961 . s
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Great Purge
Anastasia Bitsenko