The definition of Bolsheviks is a member of the majority fraction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which was renamed the Communist Party after seizing power in the October Revolution of 1917. The Bolsheviks were born out of Russia’s Social Democrat Party. When the party split in 1903, the Bolsheviks only had one obvious leader which was Lenin.
Furthermore Bolshevism was a dissenting movement within Russian Marxism before World War I that became the founding political party of the Soviet Union. The …show more content…
They changed their name to Russian Communist Party of Bolsheviks in March 1918, to All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks in December 1925; and to Communist Party of the Soviet Union in October 1952.
Within a few short years however the revolution had collapsed. The new structure of power in the country suited many of the original revolutionaries from 1917. The true ideal of Communism, in which every man would have the same property, status, and ideal as the next, did not exist. Lenin's promises of Peace, Land, and Bread could be seen as very limited in their