HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Proletariat
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Landowning nobles
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Communist Party members
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peasants
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Detailed explanation-1: -The party started in 1898 as the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. In 1903, that party split into a Menshevik (minority) and Bolshevik (majority) faction; the latter, led by Vladimir Lenin, is the direct ancestor of the CPSU and is the party that seized power in the October Revolution of 1917.
Detailed explanation-2: -After the Russian Revolution, Lenin became leader of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) from 1917 and leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1922 until his death.
Detailed explanation-3: -Membership levels remained below 20, 000 until 1933 and then surged upward in the late 1930s, reaching 66, 000 in 1939 and reaching its peak membership of over 75, 000 in 1947.