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| Abbreviation | B |
| Website | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolshevik_party |
| Country | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| Established | 1903-00-00 |
| Disbanded | 1918-03-00 |
| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Edited | Ralphie - April 17, 2009 02:12pm |
| Description | Bolsheviks were members of the Bolshevik faction of the Marxist Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party. Bolsheviks had an extreme socialist and internationalist outlook, and were opponents of the Russian traditional statehood and the Russian Orthodox Church. The other faction of the RSDLP was known as the Mensheviks, derived from the word men'shinstvo ("minority").
Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin seized power in Russia in 1917 in an event known as the October Revolution. Shortly after seizing power, the party changed its name to the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1918 and was generally known as the Communist Party after that point. However, it was not until 1952 that the party formally dropped the word "Bolshevik" from its name. |
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