From 1907 on, English language articles sometimes used the term " Maximalist " for " Bolshevik " and " Minimalist " for " Menshevik ", which proved confusing since there was also a " Maximalist " faction within the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary Party in 1904 – 1906 ( which after 1906 formed a separate Union of Socialists-Revolutionaries Maximalists ) and then again after 1917.

However, all factions retained their respective factional structure and the Bolsheviks formed the Bolshevik Center, the de-facto governing body of the Bolshevik faction within the RSDLP.

A smaller group within the Bolshevik faction demanded that the RSDLP central committee should give its sometimes unruly Duma faction an ultimatum, demanding complete subordination to all party decisions.

However this was not accepted and Lenin tried to expel him from the Bolshevik faction.

When the first meeting of the Fourth Duma was convened in late 1912, only one out of six Bolshevik deputies, Matvei Muranov, ( another one, Roman Malinovsky, was later exposed as an Okhrana secret police agent ) voted to break away from the Menshevik faction within the Duma on 15 December 1912.

The Bolshevik leadership eventually prevailed and the Bolsheviks formed their own Duma faction in September 1913.

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union emerged from the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin.

* The RSDLP was formally split in 1912, Henceforth, the Bolshevik faction was known as Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ( bolsheviks ), RSDLP ( b ) (), РСДРП ( б )).

Voroshilov joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1905.

In January 1912, the majority of the Bolshevik faction led by Lenin and a few Mensheviks held a conference in Prague and expelled their opponents from the party.

Marxism – Leninism descends from the Bolshevik (" Majority ") faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ( RSDLP ) that was founded in the RSDLP's Second Congress in 1903.

The Bolshevik faction led by Lenin advocated an active, politically committed vanguard party membership while opposing trade union based membership of social democratic parties.

He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1906, becoming a member of the Bolshevik faction.

They helped him expel Bogdanov and his Otzovist ( Recallist ) followers from the Bolshevik faction of the RSDLP in mid-1909.

In January 1914, he was sent to St. Petersburg to direct the work of the Bolshevik version of Pravda and the Bolshevik faction of the Duma.

He was a member of its Bolshevik faction from the time of its creation in 1903.

He was elected to the RSDLP's Central Committee in 1907 and sided with Lenin in 1908 when the Bolshevik faction split into Lenin's supporters and Alexander Bogdanov's followers.

He was educated at a secondary school in Kazan, and joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ( RSDLP ) in 1906.

This theory was advanced in opposition to the position held by the Stalinist faction within the Bolshevik Party that " socialism in one country " could be built in the Soviet Union.

The Bund generally sided with the party's Menshevik faction led by Julius Martov and against the Bolshevik faction led by Vladimir Lenin during the factional struggles in the run up to the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Although most of Ukraine fell under Bolshevik control and eventually became one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union, Poland and the Baltic states emerged as independent countries.

From this effort emerged the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party ( RSDLP ), an umbrella group which soon split into hostile Bolshevik and Menshevik political organizations.

After the victory of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia at the end of 1917 and the termination of World War I the following year, the BSP emerged as an explicitly revolutionary socialist organisation.

The Revolutionary Communist Tendency ( RCT ), which emerged in 1978, began as a Trotskyist political organisation in Britain in 1978, becoming the Revolutionary Communist Party in 1981, in the tradition of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party.

Lenin ultimately emerged triumphant in the struggle for hegemony of the Bolshevik faction.

Following the successful Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and the emergence of labor unions in Japan, the Nihon Shakai Shugi Domei ( 1920 ), Japan Communist Party ( 1922 ), and other left-wing parties emerged.

Lenin was firmly opposed to any re-unification, but was outvoted within the Bolshevik leadership.

Although the Bolshevik leadership decided to form a separate party, convincing pro-Bolshevik workers within Russia to follow suit proved difficult.

They also note that Lenin put a ban on factions within the Russian Communist Party and introduced the one-party state in 1921-a move that enabled Stalin to get rid of his rivals easily after Lenin's death, and cite Felix Dzerzhinsky, who, during the Bolshevik struggle against opponents in the Russian Civil War, exclaimed " We stand for organised terror – this should be frankly stated ".

While V. I. Lenin was in favor of signing the German peace proposal immediately, a majority of the Bolshevik Central Committee under the leadership of Nikolai Bukharin and Karl Radek believed that Germany, Austro-Hungary Turkey and Bulgaria were all on the verge of a revolution within their borders.

Lenin was adamantly opposed to any re-unification, but was outvoted within the Bolshevik leadership.

Between 1903 and the fall of the Russian Empire in February 1917, he was a leading Bolshevik and one of Vladimir Lenin's closest associates, working both within Russia and abroad as circumstances permitted.

The new Bolshevik legal code contained within it the concept that if there was no victim, there was no crime.

After Bolshevik devastation, the only ancient edifice left within the kremlin walls is the tent-like Archangel Cathedral ( 1624 – 31 ), first built in stone in the 13th century.

Examples include a thwarted operation to overthrow the Bolshevik government in 1918 by SIS agents Sidney George Reilly and Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, as well as more orthodox espionage efforts within early Soviet Russia headed by Captain George Hill.

Initially he supported increased autonomy within the Russian Empire, in opposition to the Social Democrats in the coalition-Senate, who in vain strived for more far-reaching autonomy ; but after the Bolshevik October Revolution Paasikivi championed full independence — albeit in the form of constitutional monarchy.

Initially, only Alexandra Kollontai rallied to Lenin's position within the Bolshevik party.

The majority stayed within the mainstream party but a minority who supported the Bolshevik path became known as Left Socialist-Revolutionaries.

There were voices within the Conservative majority that such a high-profile appointment should not have gone to a Liberal National, although it is also likely that Hore-Belisha's Jewish faith aroused anti-semitism amongst his Conservative colleagues, who labelled him a warmonger and a Bolshevik.

Many communists left the IWW in the period from 1919 to 1925 due to an ideological split between centralists and decentralists within the IWW, and with encouragement from the Bolshevik government in Moscow to work within the more mainstream American Federation of Labor unions.

To aid the Bolsheviks at the expense of other revolutionaries, the Okhrana helped Roman Malinovsky, a police spy who had managed to rise within the group and gain Lenin ’ s trust, in his bid to become a Bolshevik delegate to the Duma.

Although the secret police had agents within the Bolshevik organization, other factors contributed to the Okhrana ’ s inefficacy at averting the events of 1917.

Yezhov had accomplished Stalin's intended task for the Great Purge: the public liquidation of the last of his Old Bolshevik political rivals and the elimination of any possibility of " disloyal elements " or " fifth columnists " within the Soviet military and government prior to the onset of war with Germany.