Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)

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The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) was a revolutionary Marxist political party in the Russian Empire led by Vladimir Lenin that spearheaded the 1917 October Revolution and laid the foundations for the Soviet state.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Marxist party
political party
revolutionary organization
activeIn Russian Revolution
surface form: February Revolution

Russian Revolution
surface form: October Revolution

1905 Russian Revolution
surface form: Russian Revolution of 1905
aimedTo build socialism in Russia
establish a dictatorship of the proletariat
bannedBy Okhrana
surface form: Russian Empire authorities
country Russian Empire
dateFounded 1903
dissolved 1918 as a separate name, when renamed Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
event split with Mensheviks in 1903
factionOf Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) self-linksurface differs
surface form: Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
formedGovernment Council of People's Commissars
foundedBy Vladimir Lenin
headquartersLocation Leningrad
surface form: Petrograd
ideology Leninism
Marxism
influencedBy Friedrich Engels
Karl Marx
Vladimir Lenin
language Russian
laterKnownAs Communist Party of the Soviet Union
surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) self-linksurface differs
surface form: Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
leader Vladimir Lenin
legalStatus illegal for much of its early existence in the Russian Empire
newspaper Iskra
Pravda
notableMember Alexander Shlyapnikov
Alexei Rykov
Andrei Bubnov
Felix Dzerzhinsky
Grigory Zinoviev
Joseph Stalin
Leon Trotsky
Lev Kamenev
Mikhail Kalinin
Nikolai Bukharin
Vladimir Lenin
Yakov Sverdlov
opposedBy Constitutional Democratic Party
Socialist Revolutionary Party
White movement
originatesFrom split at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
overthrew Russian Provisional Government
paramilitaryWing Red Guards
partOf Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) self-linksurface differs
surface form: Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
placeFounded Brussels, Belgium
surface form: Brussels

London, England
surface form: London
playedRoleIn creation of the Soviet state
politicalPosition far-left
roleIn spearheaded the October Revolution of 1917
separatedFrom Mensheviks
signed Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
succeededBy Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) self-linksurface differs
surface form: Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
timePeriod early 20th century
youthWing Socialist Union of Working Youth (early Bolshevik youth groups)

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Russian Social Democratic Labour Party predecessorOf Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party hadWing Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
this entity surface form: Bolsheviks
Mariko Svanidze spousePoliticalAffiliation Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
Nikolai Podvoisky memberOfPoliticalParty Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
this entity surface form: Bolsheviks
Hieromartyr John Kochurov persecutedBy Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
this entity surface form: Bolsheviks
Dmitry Ulyanov memberOf Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
this entity surface form: Bolshevik Party
New Hieromartyr Vladimir (Bogoyavlensky) persecutedBy Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
this entity surface form: Bolsheviks