He remained a self-described " non-factional social democrat " until August 1917 when he joined Lenin and the Bolsheviks as their positions assembled and he came to believe that Lenin was right on the issue of the party.

The German policy was a success ; an armistice between Germany and the Bolsheviks came into force on 6 December and peace negotiations began on 22 December 1917 at Brest-Litovsk.

After the Bolsheviks came to power, Trotsky became the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and published the secret treaties previously signed by the Triple Entente that detailed plans for post-war reallocation of colonies and redrawing state borders.

Initially a supporter of Joseph Stalin after Vladimir Lenin's death, he came to oppose a large number of Stalin's policies and was one of Stalin's most prominent victims during the " Moscow Trials " and purges of the Old Bolsheviks in the late 1930s.

When the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia in November 1917, they called for Russia's immediate withdrawal as a member of the Allies of World War I.

Martov's supporters, who were in the minority in a crucial vote on the question of party membership, came to be called " Mensheviks ", derived from the Russian word меньшинство ( men ' shinstvo, " minority "), whereas Lenin's adherents were known as " Bolsheviks ", from bol ' shinstvo (" majority ").

The Mensheviks came to argue for predominantly legal methods and trade union work, while the Bolsheviks favoured armed violence.

He came to know Vladimir Lenin there, but inside the party he promoted ultra-radical left-wing political opposition to Lenin and the mainstream Bolsheviks.

When the Bolsheviks came to power as a result of the October Revolution in 1917, Martov became politically marginalised.

His later analysis of the failure of the Russian revolution was that after Lenin and the Bolsheviks came to power, they crippled the soviets.

Born in Riga to Vasili Peterson, a Swedish bank director and Alejandra Labunskaia, a Russian noblewoman, Eugenie attended drama school in Moscow as a girl and escaped to Berlin with her mother as Bolsheviks came to power in 1917.

The Bolsheviks and their allies came out with a program called “ soviet government .” The soviet system was described as “ a higher type of state ” and “ a higher form of democracy ” which would “ arouse the masses of the exploited toilers to the task of making new history .” Furthermore, it offered “ to the oppressed toiling masses the opportunity to participate actively in the free construction of a new society ”.

When the Bolsheviks came to power, he completed his cycle of illusions by saluting Vladimir Lenin as the leader who had realized his syndicalist myth.

The leader and his intimates could manipulate the historical record as it suited them in their struggle to gain and maintain power .” When the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, Tarle was a successful historian at the University of Saint Petersburg.

Wang Ming and his group of 28 Bolsheviks came back from Moscow, designated to take the leadership of the CCP by their mentors in Moscow, but they only received a cold shoulder from Li.

His followers, the Smenovekhovtsi ( named after a series of articles he published in 1921 ) Smena vekh ( Russian: volte-face ), came to regard themselves as National Bolsheviks, borrowing the term from Niekisch.

Soon after the Americans had returned home, the Kerensky government fell and the Bolsheviks came to power.

And a few days later, the Provisional Committee of the State Duma and the Socialist-Revolutionary and Menshevik leaders of the Executive Committee of the Soviet of Workers ’ and Soldiers ’ Deputies, acting secretly from the Bolsheviks, came to an agreement to form a new provisional government of Russia, headed by Prince Lvov.

When the Russian Revolution came, the Chaliapins attempted to continue to live in Russia, but things became impossible, especially after the Bolsheviks reputedly confiscated his father's property.

Chamanzaminli realized that historical circumstances made him a likely victim of politics, as most of ADR government officials had been killed when the Bolsheviks came to power.

After the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia in November 1917, Count von Czernin negotiated a separate peace treaty with the newly created Ukrainian People's Republic that was signed on 9 February 1918 and in which he agreed to cede Chelm.

Then in January 1935 came the convening of Zunyi Conference, and with the defection of 28 Bolsheviks members Zhang Wentian, Wang Jiaxiang and Yang Shangkun to Mao's camp, the three-man team's command over military was discharged, Mao, Wang and Zhou Enlai composed a new three-man team to replace them ; and Bo Gu's title of General Secretary was replaced by his former associate Zhang, but still a member of politburo.

Reza's father was a Jewish Iranian engineer of Russian descent ( whose family left Moscow after the Bolsheviks came to power ), and her mother was a Jewish Hungarian violinist.

The Bolsheviks, led by Vladmir Lenin, came to power in October 1917 and established a communist government.

the second, the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks ( who later called themselves Communists ) in November of the same year.

The remaining member, with the power of appointing a new one, was won over by the Bolsheviks.

In Russia the Social Democrats ' plan had the backing of Vladimir Lenin and the Russian Bolsheviks, who in July 1917 were plotting a revolt against the Russian Provisional Government, which was opposed the Power Act, as it would reduce the power of the Russian administration in the country.

At this phase, Lenin and the Bolsheviks, under threat in Petrograd, urged the Social Democrats to seize power in Finland, which was an important defensive area against the German threat and a vital backup zone for the Bolsheviks in and around Petrograd.

After eight months of liberal rule, the October Revolution brought Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks to power, leading to the creation of the Soviet Union in place of the disintegrated Russian Empire.

* 1917: Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power in the Russian Revolution.

The Russian Revolution in 1917 was triggered by a combination of economic breakdown, war weariness, and discontent with the autocratic system of government, and it first brought a coalition of liberals and moderate socialists to power, but their failed policies led to seizure of power by the Communist Bolsheviks on 25 October.

The Bolsheviks, under Vladimir Lenin, advocated the formation of a small elite of professional revolutionists, subject to strong party discipline, to act as the vanguard of the proletariat in order to seize power by force.

He agreed with the Left Communists that ultimately a pan-European Soviet revolution would solve all problems, but until then the Bolsheviks had to stay in power.

But he agreed with the Left Communists that a separate peace treaty with an imperialist power would be a terrible morale and material blow to the Soviet government, negate all its military and political successes of 1917 and 1918, resurrect the notion that the Bolsheviks secretly allied with the German government, and cause an upsurge of internal resistance.

Before the Revolution, despite supporting political reform ( including Bolsheviks elected to the Duma, when opportune ), Lenin proposed that capitalism could ultimately only be overthrown with revolution, not with gradual reforms — from within ( Fabianism ) and from without ( social democracy ) — which would fail, because the ruling capitalist social class, who hold economic power ( the means of production ), determine the nature of political power in a bourgeois society.

The October Revolution in Petrograd overthrew the Russian Provisional Government and gave the power to the local soviets dominated by Bolsheviks.

* Rise to power of the Bolsheviks in Russia under Vladimir Lenin, creating the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, the first state committed to the establishment of communism.

With the acquisition of power by the Bolsheviks, Dzerzhinsky eagerly assumed responsibility for making security arrangements at the Smolny Institute where the Bolsheviks had their headquarters.

On November 10, 1917, three days after the Soviet seizure of power during the October Revolution, the executive committee of the national railroad labor union, Vikzhel, threatened a national strike unless the Bolsheviks shared power with other socialist parties and dropped the uprising's leaders, Lenin and Trotsky, from the government.

On October 29, 1917 ( Julian calendar ), immediately after the Bolshevik seizure of power during the October Revolution, the executive committee of the national railroad labor union, Vikzhel, threatened a national strike unless the Bolsheviks shared power with other socialist parties and dropped Lenin and Leon Trotsky from the government.

The Bolsheviks, founded by Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov, were by 1905 a mass organization consisting primarily of workers under a democratic internal hierarchy governed by the principle of democratic centralism, who considered themselves the leaders of the revolutionary working class of Russia.

Her resources overstretched by the two-front war, Germany pursued a policy of breaking up Russia from inside by providing financial support both to revolutionary groups such as the Bolsheviks and separatist factions such as the Finnish activists leaning toward Germanism.

In December 1917 the Bolsheviks were themselves under intense pressure from the Germans to conclude peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk, and Russia Bolshevism was in deep crisis, with a demoralized army and the fate of the October Revolution in doubt.

Lenin calculated that the Bolsheviks could perhaps hold central parts of Russia but would have to give up some territories on its periphery, including Finland in the less important north-western corner.

The Allies hoped to override Lenin and the Bolsheviks, in order to get Russia back into the war against Germany.

The Red Finns did not accept total alliance with the Bolsheviks ; major disputes continued over demarcation of the border between Red Finland and Soviet Russia, and over the civil rights of Russian citizens in Finland.

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, signed between Russia and Germany on 3 March, effectively restricted the Bolsheviks ' ability to support the Finnish Red Guards with anything more than weapons and supplies.

The Germans attacked Russia on 18 February ; the offensive led to a rapid collapse and retreat of the Russian troops and to signature of the first Treaty of Brest-Litovsk by the Bolsheviks on 3 March 1918.

The German army did not alter its military plans concerning Finland after the peace treaty with the Bolsheviks because the Civil War of the Finns had opened an easy access with low costs to Fennoscandia, and because troops of a British Naval squadron had invaded the harbour of Murmansk on the northwestern coast of Russia by the Arctic Ocean on 9 March 1918.

* 1918 – Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family ( Julian calendar date ).

" In Soviet Russia the Bolsheviks originally embraced " an ideological creed which professed that all religion would atrophy " and " resolved to eradicate Christianity as such.

" In her diary she comforted herself: " I am sure they all got out of Russia and now the Bolsheviks are trying to hide the truth.

However, large portions of Russia were held under the leadership of either pro-Tsarist or anti-communist military commanders who formed the White movement to oppose the Bolsheviks, resulting in civil war between the Bolsheviks ' Red Army and the anti-Bolshevik White Army.

The Bolsheviks: the intellectual and political history of the triumph of communism in Russia.

At the news of Russian Revolution of February 1917, Bukharin returned to Russia by way of Japan and at once became one of the leading Bolsheviks in Moscow, being elected to the Central Committee.

The Gregorian Calendar was instituted in Russia by the Bolsheviks in 1917, Romania accepted it in 1919 under king Ferdinand of Romania ( 1 November 1919 became 14 November 1919 ), Turkey in 1923 under Ataturk, and the last Orthodox country to accept the calendar was Greece also in 1923.

Bessarabia, having declared its independence from Russia in 1917 by the Conference of the Country ( Sfatul Țării ), called in Romanian troops to protect the province from the Bolsheviks who were spreading the Russian Revolution.

The Western Allies also expressed their dismay at the Bolsheviks, ( 1 ) upset at the withdrawal of Russia from the war effort, ( 2 ) worried about a possible Russo-German alliance, and perhaps most importantly ( 3 ) galvanised by the prospect of the Bolsheviks making good their threats to assume no responsibility for, and so default on, Imperial Russia's massive foreign loans ; the legal notion of odious debt had not yet been formulated.

However, the relations between the anarchists and the Bolsheviks soured in Soviet Russia ( e. g., in the suppression of the Kronstadt rebellion and the Makhnovist movement ).

The Left Communist Bolsheviks likely believed that the Germans would seize the opportunity to make a separate peace with Russia ( even on moderate terms ) so that they would have an opportunity to defeat France and Great Britain before the Americans arrived, even if this meant they would have to settle for less generous terms.