Bolsheviks
Far-left faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Bolsheviks (Russian: Большевики́, IPA: [bəlʲʂɨvʲɪˈkʲi], from большинство́ boľšinstvó, 'majority')[lower-alpha 1] were a far-left, revolutionary Marxist faction founded by Vladimir Lenin that split with the Mensheviks[lower-alpha 2] from the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), a revolutionary socialist political party formed in 1898, at its Second Party Congress in 1903.[3]
| Большевики | |
.jpg) 1920 Bolshevik Party meeting: sitting (from left to right) are Yenukidze, Kalinin, Bukharin, Tomsky, Lashevich, Kamenev, Preobrazhensky, Serebryakov, Lenin and Rykov in front | |
| Successor | Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1903; 120 years ago (1903) |
| Founders | Vladimir Lenin |
| Dissolved | 1952; 71 years ago (1952)[1] |
| Headquarters | Varied |
| Products | Pravda (newspaper) |
| Leader | Vladimir Lenin |
Parent organization | Russian Social Democratic Labour Party |
Formerly called | "hards" |
After forming their own party in 1912, the Bolsheviks took power during the October Revolution in the Russian Republic in November 1917, overthrowing the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky, and became the only ruling party in the subsequent Soviet Russia and later the Soviet Union. They considered themselves the leaders of the revolutionary proletariat of Russia.[citation needed] Their beliefs and practices were often referred to as Bolshevism.