HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Bolsheviks
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Mensheviks
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Royalists
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Czarists
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Detailed explanation-1: -Throughout the 20th century, the party adopted a number of different names. In 1918, RSDLP(b) became All-Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and remained so until 1925. From 1925 to 1952, the name was All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and from 1952 to 1991, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -They were called Bolsheviks because it means “those who are more.” Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was the leader of the Bolshevik group. The more moderate group, the Mensheviks (meaning “those of the minority") were led by Julius Martov.
Detailed explanation-4: -On March 9, 1918, the ascendant Bolshevik Party formally changes its name to the All-Russian Communist Party.