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Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, were a radical faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903. The Bolshevik party, formally established in 1912, seized power in Russia in the October Revolution of 1917 and was later renamed the Russian Communist Party…

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Founded
1903; 123 years ago (1903)
Founder
Vladimir Lenin
Ideology
Leninism · Bolshevism · Revolutionary socialism
National affiliation
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
Newspaper
Pravda
Political position
Far-left

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related to External links · 37
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related to Split between Lenin and Bogdanov (1908–10) · 25
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related to Etymology of Bolshevik and Menshevik · 23
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related to Forming a separate party (1912) · 22
Bolsheviks → All-Russian Communist Party, All-Union Communist Party, As, Bolshevik Party, Bolsheviks-only Prague Party Conference, Both, Communist Party, From, In, January, Lenin, Mensheviks, One, Party, RSDLP, Russian Social Democratic Labour, Soviet Union, The, The Mensheviks, This
related to Usage of the term in other countries · 22
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related to Beginning of the 1905 Revolution (1903–05) · 19
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related to Mensheviks (1906–07) · 19
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related to Derogatory usage of "Bolshevik" · 17
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related to Vladimir Lenin's ideology in What Is to Be Done? · 16
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related to Final attempt at party unity (1910) · 15
Bolsheviks → Central Committee, In January, Kamenev, Leninists, Menshevik, Mensheviks, One, Paris, Russian, The, This, Tsarist, Victor Nogin, With, Zinoviev

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party lenin russian mensheviks bolshevik revolution became lenin's split rsdlp russia congress factions soviet faction one democratic war 1917 two

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BolsheviksFounded1903; 123 years ago (1903)1.00infobox
BolsheviksFounderVladimir Lenin1.00infobox
BolsheviksIdeologyLeninism1.00infobox
BolsheviksIdeologyBolshevism1.00infobox
BolsheviksIdeologyRevolutionary socialism1.00infobox
BolsheviksNational affiliationRussian Social Democratic Labour Party1.00infobox
BolsheviksNewspaperPravda1.00infobox
BolsheviksPolitical positionFar-left1.00infobox
BolsheviksSucceeded byRussian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)1.00infobox
robbery to fund the party's activitiesinstance ofLenin was also more willing to use illegal means0.80text
Georgi Plekhanovinstance ofopposing theorists0.80text
Anatoly Lunacharskyinstance ofThis practice was seen in the party's trying to recruit peasants and uneducated workers by promising them how glorious life would be after the revolution and granting them tempo…0.80text

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