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The Bolsheviks under Vladimir Lenin took over Russia after its civil war. The Bolsheviks later changed their name to Communists.
The Bolsheviks
Dmitry Medvedev is President of Russia.
The Bolsheviks were also known as "Communists" but not until the Seventh Party Congress of the Bolshevik Party in March 1918, when the party officially changed its name from Bolshevik to Communist.
The Bolshevik Party under Vladimir Lenin took over Russia in 1917. In March 1918, the Bolsheviks changed their name to the Communist Party.
Bolsheviks are another name for Communists. Actually Bolsheviks was their name prior to March 1918 when they changed it to Communists.
During the Russian Revolutions of 1917, they were known as the Bolsheviks.
By 1922, the Russian socialist revolutionaries who had taken over Russia were known as "Communists." They had been the "Bolsheviks" until they held their Seventh Party Congress in March 1918 and adopted the name Communists. There had been other revolutionary parties, (one was the "Social Revolutionaries") besides the Bolsheviks, but the Bolsheviks were the only ones that survived until 1922.
The Bolsheviks under Vladimir Lenin were the Russian revolutionaries that took control of the government in 1917. In March 1918, they changed their name to Communists.The Bolsheviks, later calling themselves Communists, were the Russian revolutionaries who took control of Russia in 1917.
The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) was the first Marxist party in Russia. In 1903, the party split into two factions, the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. The Bolsheviks eventually split off completely from the RSDLP and formed their own party. The Bolshevik Party eventually became the Communist Party in 1918.
The Bolsheviks are now called Communists, if they are still in business. The Bolsheviks changed their name to Communists in March 1918.