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Bolshevik
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Bolshevik

(Russian: “member of the majority”) Member of the wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party led by Vladimir Ilich Lenin that seized control in the Russian Revolution of 1917. The group arose in 1903 when Lenin's followers insisted that party membership be restricted to professional or full-time revolutionaries. Though they joined with their rivals, the Mensheviks (“members of the minority”), in the Russian Revolution of 1905, the two groups later split, and in 1912 Lenin formed his own party. Its appeal grew among urban workers and soldiers during World War I. See also Communist Party, Leninism.
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Simons, a New York minister whose senate subcommittee testimony that "the present chaotic conditions in Russia are due in large part to the activities of Yiddish agitators from the East Side of New York City," was reprinted in The Literary Digest ("Jews from America in Bolshevik Oligarchy" 181); and by The Outlook, which asserted in two articles that Polish pogroms were actually efforts to root out Bolsheviki agitators ("Pogroms, War Antagonism, or Race Hatred?
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