Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists or Bolsheviki (derived from большинство, literally meaning "one of the majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik ("Minority") faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903. The RSDLP was a revolutionary socialist political party formed in 1898 in Minsk to unite the various revolutionary organisations of the Russian Empire into one party.
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This investigation has shown that many of the widespread interpretations about the Russian Revolution have either no basis in fact or, at best, are ideologically motivated exaggerations. We could find no evidence for example that there was anything in the DNA of Bolshevism that would lead it to consciously and deliberately undermine proletarian power from the start. On the contrary they did all they could to encourage it for the first 6 months. Such accusations of course are made by those who al
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― Russia: Revolution and Counter-Revolution, 1905-1924. A View from the Communist Left
― Russia: Revolution and Counter-Revolution, 1905-1924. A View from the Communist Left
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Everybody cursed the Bolsheviks but nobody was prepared to do anything about them.
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― A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924
― A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924
