The Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks
Formation	1903
Extinction	1912
Type	political
The majority faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.

The Bolsheviks or Bolsheviki were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903. The literal meaning of Bolshevik is "one of the majority".

The Bolsheviks were the majority faction in a crucial vote, hence their name. They ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. They came to power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and founded the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic which would later become the chief constituent of the Soviet Union in 1922.

 

Party Member

Politician	Born	Died	Description
Vladimir Lenin	22 April 1870	21 January 1924	Russian communist revolutionary, a big contributor to later communist ideologies, founded the Soviet Union. Started the "red terror" - a mass campaign of political repression and executing 100.000 to 200.000 political dissidents in 1918.

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:The Jewish Role in the Bolshevik Revolution and Russia's Early Soviet Regime	article	January 1994	Mark Weber	An analysis of the murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his family in July 1918.
Document:The Jewish role in the early Soviet Regime	book extract	1 January 1921	Robert Wilton	Details of the domination of the Bolshevik Party and early Soviet government by Jews - mostly non-Russian. The information was published in the 1921 French edition of the book but not in the original 1920 American and English editions. the information remains largely suppressed, obfuscated and 'politically incorrect'.
Document:The tyranny of the political spectrum	article	5 March 2017	Peter	Details of an exchange in the comments section of an article on the World Socialist Web Site between the author and a regular WSWS commentator which was quickly removed by the site operators. It illustrates the blinkered censorious nature of activists committed to both 'Left' and 'Right' - in this case the 'Left'.
File:Red Symphony.pdf	book		Josif Landowsky
File:Stalin's willing executioners.pdf	book review	2005	Kevin MacDonald	An extended review of The Jewish Century, a 2004 book by Jewish academic Yuri Slezkine which deals in some depth with the issue of Jewish involvement in the Bolshevik revolution
File:Wall St and the Bolshevik Revolution.pdf	book	1974	Antony Sutton

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