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Bolsheviks

  1. The radicals in the Russian Revolution , who were led by Lenin and who favored revolution rather than gradual democratic change.


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Notes

Bolshevik has been used as a general term for a radical leftist or for a communist of the Soviet Union .
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Leadership values change, but being placed under permanent house arrest by the Bolsheviks at the luxury Hotel Metropol in “A Gentleman in Moscow†doesn’t stop Alexander from dressing the aristocratic part.

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The gold was confiscated after the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in 1917.

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Stalin wrote the “Short Course on the History of the Bolsheviks†that contains the adage, “The party becomes strong by purging itself.â€

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Around the same time, the German Army agreed to a technology transfer scheme with the Bolsheviks that allowed the army to test new weapons and tactics at secret sites deep inside the Soviet Union.

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But the Bolsheviks quickly invaded nearly all of them, forcing them into the newly established Soviet Union, which reoccupied the Baltic nations after World War II, leaving only Finland independent.

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