Bolshevik | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-26

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00:02:05 1 History of the split
00:09:37 1.1 Origins of the name
00:11:14 1.2 Composition of the party
00:12:45 1.3 Beginning of the 1905 Revolution (1903–1905)
00:14:54 1.4 Mensheviks (1906–1907)
00:16:08 1.5 Split between Lenin and Bogdanov (1908–1910)
00:19:06 1.6 Final attempt at party unity (1910)
00:21:03 1.7 Forming a separate party (1912)
00:26:56 2 Derogatory usage of "Bolshevik"
00:28:09 2.1 Non-Russian/Soviet groups having used the name "Bolshevik"
00:29:12 3 See also



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The Bolsheviks, originally known as Bolshevists or Bolsheviki  (Russian: большевики, большевик (singular), IPA: [bəlʲʂɨˈvʲik]; derived from bol'shinstvo (большинство), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority"), 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, Belarus to unite the various revolutionary organisations of the Russian Empire into one party.
In the Second Party Congress vote, the Bolsheviks won on the majority of important issues, hence their name. They ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Bolsheviks, or Reds, came to power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and founded the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR). With the Reds defeating the Whites and others during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922, the RSFSR became the chief constituent of the Soviet Union (USSR) in December 1922.
The Bolsheviks, founded by Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov, were by 1905 a major 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. Their beliefs and practices were often referred to as Bolshevism.