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Bolshevik

Member of the majority of the Russian Social Democratic Party who split from the Mensheviks in 1903. The Bolsheviks, under Lenin, advocated the destruction of capitalist political and economic institutions, and the setting up of a socialist state with power in the hands of the workers. The Bolsheviks set the Russian Revolution of 1917 in motion. They changed their name to the Russian Communist Party in 1918.


From the Hutchinson Encyclopedia of World History. © Research Machines plc [2006] All Rights Reserved, Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines.
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3 April 1917
Lenin returns from exile to Russia to take control of the Bolshevik revolution.
16 July 1918
Tsar Nicholas II, and the rest of his family, are murdered by the Bolsheviks in the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg.
1 August 1903
During a congress in London the Russian Social Democratic Party splits into the Mensheviks (minority) led by Georgi Plecharov and the Bolsheviks (majority) led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
4 September 1918
United States troops land at Archangel, in northern Russia in support of the provisional government in its civil war against the Bolsheviks.
17 November 1903
The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks.
 

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