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Name given to a faction of the Russian Communist grouping lead by Lenin. |
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Name given to a faction of the Russian Communist grouping lead by Vladimir Lenin. |
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Bolshevik is the Russian word for """majority""", which distinguished the faction from the other Communist faction the Mensheviks? (meaning """minority"""). The term derives from the first congress of the communist party at which Lenin was able to persuade a majority to support him as leader of the party. Many commentators point out the difficulties presented to the Menshevik faction by getting lumbered with this name. In fact the Mensheviks were in the majority until the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1918. |
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Bolshevik is the Russian word for "majority", which distinguished the faction from the other Communist faction the Mensheviks? (meaning "minority"). The term derives from the first congress of the communist party at which Lenin was able to persuade a majority to support him as leader of the party. Many commentators point out the difficulties presented to the Menshevik faction by getting lumbered with this name. In fact the Mensheviks were in the majority until the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1918. |
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Trotsky? was initially a member of Mensheviks but in one of the key defections from that wing of the party lined up behind Lenin after the First Russian Revolution. |
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Leon Trotsky was initially a member of Mensheviks but in one of the key defections from that wing of the party lined up behind Lenin after the First Russian Revolution. |
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