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Glossary - Soviet Union
(E?)(L?) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/soviet_union/su_glos.htmlUnter anderem findet man hier die sprachliche Erklärung des "Bolschewik".
Bolshevik
A member of the radical group within the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (q.v.), which, under Vladimir I. Lenin's leadership, staged the Bolshevik Revolution (q.v.). The term "bol'shevik" means a "member of the majority" ("bol'shenstvo") and was applied to the radical members of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party after they won a majority of votes cast at a party congress (q.v.) in 1903. In March 1918, the Bolsheviks formed the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik) and began calling themselves Communists. That party was the precursor of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU--q.v.).