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 Bolshevik faction emerged within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party as a de facto political bloc separate from the Mensheviks in 1903.

* 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.

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.

A major event that greatly influenced the development of fascism was the October Revolution of 1917 in which Bolshevik communists led by Vladimir Lenin seized power in Russia.

A commander of the peasant Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine, also known as the Anarchist Black Army, Makhno led a guerrilla campaign opposing both the Bolshevik " Reds " and monarchist " Whites ".

He sided with Lenin against Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev when the Bolshevik Central Committee discussed staging an armed uprising, and he led the efforts to overthrow the Provisional Government headed by Aleksandr Kerensky.

This turnaround led to enmity between the two Bolshevik leaders which lasted until 1926 and did much to destroy them both.

The failure of revolutions in Germany and Hungary ended Bolshevik hopes for an imminent world revolution and led to promotion of " Socialism in One Country " by Joseph Stalin.

In February 1917, for five years, Leninism was the Russian application of Marxist economics and political philosophy, effected and realised by the Bolshevik party, the vanguard party who led the fight for the political independence of the working class.

Nevertheless, the circumstances of the Red vs. White Russian Civil War, and terrorism by the opposing political parties, and in aid of the White Armies ' counter-revolution, led to the Bolshevik government banning other parties ; thus, the vanguard party became the sole, legal political party in Russia.

Opposition to Stalin by Trotsky led to a dissident Bolshevik ideology called Trotskyism that was repressed under Stalin's rule.

Eventually, the October Revolution, led by Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, overthrew the Provisional Government and created the world ’ s first socialist state.

In the October Revolution ( November in the Gregorian calendar ), the Bolshevik party, led by Vladimir Lenin, and the workers ' Soviets, overthrew the Provisional Government in St Petersburg.

On July 17, 1918, Bolshevik authorities acting on Yakov Sverdlov orders in Moscow and led locally by Filip Goloschekin and Yakov Yurovsky, shot Nicholas II, his immediate family, and four servants in the cellar of the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia.

) – Great October Socialist Revolution: The workers of the Petrograd Soviet in Russia, led by the Bolshevik Party and leader Vladimir Lenin, storm the Winter Palace and successfully destroy the Kerensky Provisional Government, resulting in the first overthrow of capitalism in history.

Following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution led by V. I.

The dysfunctional postwar economy caused much hunger and suffering, which led to a major decrease in Bolshevik support.

This was a Bolshevik aerial headquarters initially led by Konstantin Akashev.

This led them to participation in the Zimmerwald and Kienthal conferences with Bolshevik emigres led by Lenin.

The Mensheviks were banned along with other political parties ( except for the Bolshevik led Communist Party of the Soviet Union ) by the Soviet government during the Russian Civil War.

In September 1919, the working class movement founded the first Portuguese Labour Union Confederation, the General Confederation of Labour ; however, the feeling of political powerlessness, due to the lack of a coherent political strategy among the Portuguese working class, plus the growing popularity of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917, led to the foundation of the Portuguese Maximalist Federation ( FMP ) in 1919.

The Azerbaijan SSR was established on 28 April 1920 after the surrender of the government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic to local Bolsheviks led by Mirza Davud and Nariman Narimanov and the invasion of the Bolshevik 11th Red Army.

Malinovsky won the seat and led the Bolshevik delegation in the Fourth Duma until 1914, but even with the information Malinovsky and other informants provided to the Okhrana, the police were unprepared for the rise of Bolshevism in 1917.

With most Bolshevik leaders either supporting Bogdanov or undecided by mid-1908 when the differences became irreconcilable, Lenin concentrated on undermining Bogdanov's reputation as a philosopher.

In June 1909, Bogdanov proposed the formation of Party Schools as " Proletarian Universities " at a Bolshevik mini-conference in Paris organised by the editorial board of the Bolshevik magazine Proletary in June 1909.

* Twenty Years in Underground Russia: Memoirs of a Rank-and-File Bolshevik, by Cecilia Bobrovskaya

Originally, the members of the Cheka were exclusively Bolshevik ; however, in January 1918, the Left SRs also joined the organization The Left SRs were expelled or arrested later in 1918, following the attempted assassination of Lenin by an SR, Fanni Kaplan.

The exact identity of these individuals is confused by the fact that the Soviet Bolshevik government used the term ' bandit ' to cover ordinary criminals as well as armed and unarmed political opponents, such as the anarchists.

** Nazarov was Dictator of the Don Republic ( which before, since its founding on 2 December 1917 at Novocherkassk, had been governed by a Triumvirate including the last pre-Soviet Ataman, Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin ) from 11 February 1918 till 25 February 1918 when Bolshevik troops ended their existence

Władysław Reymont's The Revolt ( 1922 ), a metaphor for the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, described a revolt by animals that take over their farm in order to introduce " equality.

Russian Bolshevik Joseph Stalin visited the meeting, demanding that the Finnish socialists carry out revolution, and tried to push the Social Democrats forward by promising independence to Finland.

Bolshevik leaders had effectively reestablished a polity with roughly the same jurisdiction as that empire by 1921, but with an internationalist ideology.

* 1918 – Ukrainian-Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kiev, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty.

* 1918 – Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia.

After successfully repelling Austro-Hungarian, White, and Ukrainian Nationalist forces, the Makhnovists militia forces and anarchist communist territories in the Ukraine were eventually crushed by Bolshevik military forces.

The most serious disagreement that Trotsky and the Mensheviks had with Lenin at the time was over the issue of " expropriations ", i. e., armed robberies of banks and other companies by Bolshevik groups to procure money for the Party, which had been banned by the 5th Congress, but continued by the Bolsheviks.

Allied with Lenin, he defeated attempts by other Bolshevik Central Committee members ( Zinoviev, Kamenev, Alexey Rykov, etc.

Throughout January and February 1918, Lenin's position was supported by 7 members of the Bolshevik Central Committee and Bukharin's by 4.

Lenin and the Bolshevik Central Committee agreed on 4 March to create the Supreme Military Council, headed by former chief of the imperial General Staff Mikhail Bonch-Bruevich.