Bolsheviks
Russian Revolution radicals
Bolsheviks were members of the radical faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party that seized power in the October Revolution of 1917, establishing the Soviet state under Lenin.
The name comes from a Russian word meaning "majority," though they were often outnumbered by their rivals, the Mensheviks.
Bolshevik became synonymous with communist revolutionary, and in Western usage often carried overtones of dangerous radicalism: The senator accused his opponents of Bolshevik tactics.
Soviet state founder
- TrotskyExiled Soviet revolutionary leader
- October RevolutionSoviet founding coup
- Red GuardsMaoist youth paramilitary movement
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
uprising · proletariat · vanguard · cadres · agitators · militants · revolutionaries · Petrograd
Collective ownership system
- MarxismClass-based revolutionary philosophy
- socialismCommunal economic control
- party membershipFormal organizational affiliation
- central committeeExecutive governing body
Politburo · dictatorship of the proletariat · ideology · faction · leftists · radicals · extremists · collectivization
Soviet founding upheaval
- 1917Late Great War
- Tsarist RussiaMonarchy preceding Soviet state
- civil warDomestic armed conflict
- WhitesEuropean-ancestry ethnic group
Reds · Mensheviks · provisional government · February Revolution · abdication · Cheka · Soviet Union · Comintern
Advocates for fundamental change
- extremistsThose with radical positions
- agitatorsThose who incite disturbance
- subversivesThose undermining established systems
- revolutionariesThose seeking systemic overthrow
communists · reds · leftists · militants · fanatics · ideologues · troublemakers · dissidents
Core of trained personnel
- cell structureArrangement of cellular components
- disciplineTrained self-control or specialty
- centralismCentral authority doctrine
- hierarchyRanked authority structure
membership · underground · clandestine · conspiratorial · party line · factionalism · split · exile
Lenin
Soviet state founder
- TrotskyExiled Soviet revolutionary leader
- October RevolutionSoviet founding coup
- Red GuardsMaoist youth paramilitary movement
insurrection · uprising · proletariat · vanguard · cadres · agitators · militants · revolutionaries · Petrograd · seizure of power
communism
Collective ownership system
- MarxismClass-based revolutionary philosophy
- socialismCommunal economic control
- party membershipFormal organizational affiliation
central committee · Politburo · dictatorship of the proletariat · ideology · faction · leftists · radicals · extremists · collectivization · nationalization
Russian Revolution
Soviet founding upheaval
- 1917Late Great War
- Tsarist RussiaMonarchy preceding Soviet state
- civil warDomestic armed conflict
Whites · Reds · Mensheviks · provisional government · February Revolution · abdication · Cheka · Soviet Union · Comintern · Russian Empire
radicals
Advocates for fundamental change
- extremistsThose with radical positions
- agitatorsThose who incite disturbance
- subversivesThose undermining established systems
revolutionaries · communists · reds · leftists · militants · fanatics · ideologues · troublemakers · dissidents · anarchists
cadre
Core of trained personnel
- cell structureArrangement of cellular components
- disciplineTrained self-control or specialty
- centralismCentral authority doctrine
hierarchy · membership · underground · clandestine · conspiratorial · party line · factionalism · split · exile · pamphlets
- Communist GroupsCommunist Party, Comintern, Maoists, PCI, Mensheviks
- European HistoryFrench Revolution, Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Industrial Revolution
- Revolutionrevolt, uprising, insurrection, overthrow, revolutionaries
- RussiaRussia, Moscow, Kremlin, Red Square, Siberia
- WWItrenches, no man's land, no mans land, trench warfare, armistice
- Political PartiesRepublican Party, Democratic Party, Labour Party, Conservative Party, Green Party
Bolsheviksfascists
Authoritarian nationalist adherents
capitalists · Nazis · anti-communists · monarchists · reactionaries
- Bolshevik Revolution1917 communist coup in Russia
- Bolshevik PartyLenin's revolutionary socialist organization