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. ...more

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Nikolai Tolstoy

Vladimir Lenin
Prior to January 22, 1905, the revolutionary party of Russia consisted of a small handful of people, and the reformists of those days, derisively called us a 'sect'. Within a few months, however, the picture completely changed. The hundreds of revolutionary Social Democrats 'suddenly' grew into thousands; the thousands became leaders of between two and three million proletarians. ...more
Vladimir Lenin

Orlando Figes
Everybody cursed the Bolsheviks but nobody was prepared to do anything about them.
Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891 - 1924

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