
1) Lenin et al 2) Literally, the majority
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1) Reds
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The name of Russian communist revolutionaries who seized control of Russia in the October 1917 revolution. The term
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The radical Marxist revolutionary group formed in 1903, following a split in the Russian Social Democratic Party (SDs). The Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, wanted socialist revolution and the creation of a ‘workers’ dictatorship’ as early as practicable.
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The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists or Bolsheviki (p=bəlʲʂɨˈvʲik; derived from bol`shinstvo, `majority`, literally meaning `one of the majority`) were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903. The Bolsheviks were the ...
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Having split from the Russian Socialist movement in 1903, the Bolsheviks ('Majority') developed into a small, tightly organised, revolutionary Marxist group led by Lenin, for whom violence was a legitimate instrument of power. In November 1917, they took control of a chaotic Russia, becoming the de facto rulers after the subsequent civil war. They ...
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A member of the radical group within the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, which, under Vladimir I. Lenin's leadership, staged the Bolshevik Revolution. The term bol'shevik means a member of the majority (bol'shenstvo) and was applied to the radical members of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party after they won a majority of votes cast at...
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people belonging to the group who took control of Russia in 1917, later known as the (Russian) Communist Party; also used as a name for someone who was suspected of being against their society or wanting a revolution
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Communist revolutionaries who led the October Revolution in Russia; the Communist Party would be born from this faction and would go on to establish the Soviet Union, the first socialist state in the world.
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(majority) a wing of the Social Democrats under the leadership of Lenin; wanted a small party of dedicated revolutionaries
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Members of the radical political faction that, under the leadership of Vladimir I. Lenin, staged the Bolshevik Revolution and in 1918 formed the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik), precursor of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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