Tags: Political Party.
The Bolsheviks originally also Bolshevists or Bolsheviki (Russian: большевики большевик (singular) IPA: [bəlʲʂɨˈvʲik]; derived from bol’shinstvo majority literally meaning one of the majority) were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903.The Bolsheviks were the majority faction in a crucial vote hence their name.
