The Bolsheviks
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| The Bolsheviks link Spartacus | |
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| Formation | 1903 |
| Extinction | 1912 |
| Type | political |
| The majority faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. | |
The Bolsheviks or Bolsheviki were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903. The literal meaning of Bolshevik is "one of the majority".
The Bolsheviks were the majority faction in a crucial vote, hence their name. They ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. They came to power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and founded the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic which would later become the chief constituent of the Soviet Union in 1922.
