Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks were a radical, far-left, and revolutionary Marxist faction founded by Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov. They split from the Menshevik faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1903. After forming their own party in 1912, the Bolsheviks took power during the October Revolution in the Russian Republic in November 1917. Their beliefs and practices were...