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Bolsheviks

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Why did the Mensheviks Lose to the Bolsheviks? (Short Animated Documentary)

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The Russian Revolution (1917)

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What were the goals of the Bolsheviks?

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Большевик уходит из дома! Bolshevik Leaves Home!

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Why Did Russian Jews Support the Bolshevik Revolution?

The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists or Bolsheviki, were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903. The RSDLP was a revolutionary socialist political party formed in 1898 in Minsk in Belarus to unite the various revolutionary organisations of the Russian Empire into one party.
    • History of the split 

    • Non-Russian/Soviet groups having used the name "Bolshevik" 

    • Derogatory usage of "Bolshevik"